Teresa de Lisieux - La Civiltà Cattolica

Teresa de Lisieux - La Civiltà Cattolica

Truly, mystical? The most famous saint of the 20th century, no doubt. But mystical? Among the traditional representations of mystical experience, what most affects the common of mortals is, above all, the extraordinary, the spectacular, the “supernatural”. The supernatural manifests itself through ecstasy, robbing, levitation, stigmas. This language of the body echoes an articulated language, sometimes dark, that also seems to come from another …