Pharmarelics, between the natural and the supernatural. Patient narratives of healing miracles in 18th-century France
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Eva Yampolsky, « Pharmarelics, between the natural and the supernatural. Patient narratives of healing miracles in 18th-century France », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, ID : 10670/1.3a9c8e...
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Based on patient narratives gathered by members of the Convulsionaries of Saint-Médard movement, this article examines first-person testimony of healing miracles that occurred in Paris through the intercession of the Jansenist deacon François de Pâris, from the time of his death on May 1st, 1727. Associated with Jansenism by the partisans of the movement as much as by its opponents, these healing events are at the heart of a controversy concerning the validity of the miracles in question. I will show here that a new “medical” model of healing miracles is developed with the objective of legitimizing such miracles outside official Church doctrine. As we will see in the narratives themselves, this new model concerns the processes of miraculous healing as well as the language used by the sick individuals themselves.
