Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies. Leonarde’s Ghost : : Popular Piety and "The Appearance of a Spirit" in 1628 / / ed. by Kathryn A. Edwards, Susie Speakman Sutch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• HerausgeberIn: Edwards, Kathryn A.,; Sutch, Susie Speakman,
• MitwirkendeR: Mercier, Christophe,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

For seven weeks in late spring and early summer of 1628, a ghost haunted the modest dwelling of Huguette Roy and her husband in the small city of Dole in the Holy Roman Empire near the French border. Before and after giving birth to her third child, Huguette received visits twice daily from a young woman clothed in white who cleaned her house, eased her pains, and tended her newborn son. Only Huguette could see this apparition, and the haunting aroused curiosity and fear throughout her community. Soon after the spirit departed, a young man from Dole prepared a manuscript in colloquial French to recount Huguette’s experiences, the ghost’s demands, and the event’s orthodoxy. Translators Edwards and Sutch present this primary source in English to allow modern readers to view the spirituality, piety, and daily lives of ordinary people in early modern Europe.Transcription of the original French of Leonarde’s Ghost with editor’s notes in English, supplemental material [download pdf]

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Editorial Process -- Introduction: A Setting for a Ghost Story -- The History of the Appearance of a Spirit Which Happened in the City of Dole, July 24, 1628 -- Cast of Characters -- First Chapter: What happened on the first day -- Second Chapter: What happened from the second day till the tenth -- Third Chapter: What happened from the tenth day till the twentieth. -- Fourth Chapter: What happened the twenty-first day. -- Fifth Chapter: What happened the twenty-second [day] till the thirtieth -- Sixth Chapter: After the thirtieth day the spirit declares that it is Leonarde Colin. Huguette thinks it to be her mother -- Seventh Chapter: From the thirty-fifth day to the fortieth. The spirit says that it cannot write and makes a sign of the cross as a mark of its goodness and consoles Huguette concerning some calamities -- Eighth Chapter: The thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth days. The spirit refuses to take the crucifix in its hand or the chalk in order to make the cross again in the presence of two Jesuit fathers and why -- Ninth Chapter: On the thirty-ninth day the spirit declares that it has spent seventeen years in purgatory, wherein is spoken of confession, communion, and devotion toward Our Lady -- Tenth Chapter: On the thirty-ninth day for the second time it says it is the true aunt of Huguette, says something about its guardian angel, and asks for three trips to three places where Our Lady is honored -- Eleventh Chapter: The spirit completes its services, asking pardon in case it has acquitted itself badly of its duty and promises to return. Prayers were said on this subject by the whole city -- Twelfth Chapter: On the forty-first day the spirit says not a word. On the forty-second it actively advocates that the trips it had asked for be completed. -- Thirteenth Chapter: By the order of my lord the dean, the holy sacrament is brought to the place of the spirit and it does not respond, being summoned -- Fourteenth Chapter: From the forty-fourth day to the fiftieth the most reverend father Franciscans are visited and the trip to Our Lady of Gray is made -- Fifteenth Chapter: The trip to Our Lady of Montjeux is made and the fiftieth day of the apparition, the twenty-seventh of May -- Sixteenth Chapter: The trip to Our Lady of La Lève is made, and the spirit takes its leave and goes to heaven -- Seventeenth Chapter: Final conclusion, a prayer of congratulation by Huguette’s confessor made on her crowning in heaven -- Works Cited -- About the Editors