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t. e. Religious ecstasy is a type of altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and reportedly expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness, frequently accompanied by visions and emotional (and sometimes physical) euphoria.
The Palmarian Bible is a Catholic Bible and primary religious text of the Palmarian Catholic Church, first published by the Holy See at El Palmar de Troya in 2001 under the title The Sacred History, or, Holy Palmarian Bible According to the Infallible Magisterium of the Church (Spanish: Historia Sagrada o Santa Biblia Palmariana según el Magisterio Infalible de la Iglesia), believed by ...
The Lourdes apparitions are several Marian apparitions reported in 1858 by Bernadette Soubirous, the 14-year-old daughter of a miller, in the town of Lourdes in Southern France. From 11 February to 16 July 1858, she reported 18 apparitions of "a Lady". Soubirous described the lady as wearing a white veil and a blue girdle; she had a golden rose ...
c. 1595. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 92.5 cm × 127.8 cm (36.4 in × 50.3 in) Location. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (or The Ecstasy of Saint Francis) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
Alma mater. Stamford School; St John's College, Cambridge. Christianity portal. Ellicott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward), July 1885. Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter, [1] then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.
She began to experience bouts of religious ecstasy. [7] She reported that, during her illness, she had progressed from the lowest stage of "recollection", to the "devotions of silence" and even to the "devotions of ecstasy", in which was one of perceived in "perfect union with God" (see § Mysticism). She said she frequently experienced the ...
Mysticism involves an explanatory context, which provides meaning for mystical and visionary experiences, and related experiences like trances. According to Dan Merkur, mysticism may relate to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness, and the ideas and explanations related to them. [ web 1 ][ note 6 ] Parsons stresses the ...
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (also known as Saint Teresa in Ecstasy; Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is a sculptural altarpiece group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. [ 1 ] It was designed and carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the ...