Whether belief in the Peasant of Konnersreuth should be merely belief in her mystical experiences, or whether it should include her extraordinary five-year fast was a question for lively discussion last week in the Roman Catholic press of Germany.
Therese Neumann was born in 1898. eldest of the ten children of Ferdinand Neumann, a poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925,...
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