Culte populaire et mémoire sélective : le " tombeau des Jansénistes " à Saint-Étienne.
Abstracts
Nowadays, some devotions still elude all official religious structure. For two centuries, the " Tomb of the Jansenists " (Saint-Étienne, Loire) has been the subject of a pilgrinage wich honours a local monk. This person, who died in 1823, was a member of a port-royalist and above all convulsionary group: for its members, miracles were signs of the necessary support of God to the chosen ones the Elects waiting for an impending end of the world. This committment is now forgotten. Penitents only seek an effective intercessor to God. Besides the stream of visits intensifies at each difficult period, wars or economic crises. In that case as in others which are not generally studied a lot, couldn't it be a form of spiritual alternative option that could answer to a growing loss of inerest for the Church without any outward sign of a distinct marked breach? Thus we would be in presence of a unknown form of a devotion on the fringe of catholicism.
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Electronic reference
Jean-Pierre Michel-Chantin, “Culte populaire et mémoire sélective : le " tombeau des Jansénistes " à Saint-Étienne.”, Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 41-4 | 1996, Online since , connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/364; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.364
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