Posted on 08/18/2021 6:05:43 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1634, a Paris tribunal “declare[d] the said Urbain Grandier duly guilty of the crime of sorcery, evil spells, and the possession visited upon some Ursuline nuns of this town of Loudon and of other laywomen mentioned at the trial, together with other crimes resulting from the above. For redress of these, he has been condemned … to be taken to the Place of Saine-Croix of this said town, to be tied to a post on a pile of faggots that is to be built in the said Place. There his body is to be burned alive … and his ashes are to be scattered to the winds.”
he sentence was immediately enforced.
These Loudon possessions were a disgraceful carnival of simulated enspellment by the local Ursuline nuns engineered to destroy Grandier, a parish priest with a knack for acquiring enemies.
Alexandre Dumas, pere would write about Grandier in his Crimes Célèbres, and later in a stand-alone play. In Dumas’s rendering, Grandier arrived in Loudon as a handsome outsider, eloquent in the pulpit and doubly so in pursuit of a pretty girl,* as inexorable as Shylock in his victorious lawsuits against the local grandees.
Most recklessly of all, he made a foe of Cardinal Richelieu — snubbing him, opposing him politically, and (so it was alleged) authoring a scathing and anonymous lampoon of the Grey Eminence.
When Richelieu’s deputy came to town, the locals got the Ursuline nuns into their fits and got Grandier fast-tracked for hell....
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on a pile of faggots.........................
or someone who had wilded their front lawn for bees and caught hell for not mowing it.
That may very well be the case. In addition, before the nineteenth century, those suffering from such disorders were often thought to be demon-possessed, and they would be tortured so as to make the demons so uncomfortable that they would leave.
Dang, you beat me to it. You homophobe.
HEHEHE..................
I was just looking at a piece about how the reduction in numbers of catholic nuns - the church’s slave labor force - is leading to economic hard times for some parts of the world. Not surprising.
Again, from my personal experience and NOT based on what I’ve read, seen on TV, or overheard: Catholic nuns are so mistreated most of the time - and many do come from bad backgrounds, from the perspective of which indentured servitude to the church might seem a step up - they are not really in command of their faculties or in touch with reality. The priests may show them a great deal of favor from time to time, but most of the time they are left without resources even to have a daily meal and a safe place to sleep. They don’t even have the companionship and reassurance of protective males! (Unless they get captured by some guerilla force and then they have to, you know, submit to rape and so forth.) And - guess what? - their orders are rife with perverts who are just there to prey on the weak. One gal I used to know (she was my boss) would say, when I told her that I had considered taking orders as a nun: “Oh, and a lot of nuns are lesbians!” Here she kinda winked at me. Like it was a selling point. I was like, “Yes, I know.” :|
How I wish I had not spent so much time listening to the counsel of catholic nuns in my life! It was all rotten. I’m not saying they’re bad - most of them were nice, or at least tolerable. But the stereotypes endure for a reason. I really don’t think JC intended for these women, his supposed “brides,” to suffer so much or to be tools of evil, as is shown in this example of the death of poor Fr Urbain.
Also from personal experience: When the muggles start accusing you of “cursing” people and so forth, it’s almost always because they are jealous of you, and secondarily something unfortunate probably happened to them because of a poor decision they made, so they want to blame it on you and get sympathy from others while you shriek and babble your life away on the rack.
But that doesn’t mean you never cursed anybody. ;)
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