{"product_id":"voices-of-gemma-galgani-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-modern-saint","title":"Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVoices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRudolph M Bell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226041964\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2nd ed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eMy sister Angelina knows all about my things. This morning she was talking about my things like they were no big deal; and my brother was making fun of them together with her. I'm not afraid of their jokes, you know? . . . My sister even brought her classmates to the house, and she tells them this, just to make fun of me: \"Come, let's go see Gemma go in ecstasy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGemma Galgani was the first person who lived in the twentieth century to become a saint. Born in Lucca to a pharmacist and his wife, Gemma died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-five after a life of intense personal spirituality. Jesus caressed her as lovers do; the Virgin Mary was her affectionate Mom; Brother Gabriel playfully teased her about whether she preferred his visits to those of Jesus; and she even received all of Christ's wounds in her hands, feet, and side. At the same time, she was mocked by her family and labeled a hysteric by doctors and the local bishop. Her trials and the intimate details of her supernatural encounters--the voices of Gemma Galgani--are revealed here in this marvelous book by Rudolph M. Bell and Cristina Mazzoni. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBell and Mazzoni have chosen and translated the most important of Gemma's words: her autobiographical account of her childhood, her diary, and key selections from her \"ecstasies\" and letters. Gemma emerges as a very modern saint indeed: confident, grandiose, manipulative, childish, admired, and with this book, no longer forgotten. Following Gemma's own voice, Bell carefully contextualizes her life and passion and explores her afterlife, specifically the complicated process of her canonization. Mazzoni closes the book with a \"Saint's Alphabet\" that finds, through Gemma's voice, spiritual meaning for women in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar more than the reinvigoration of a neglected historical figure, \u003ci\u003eThe Voices of Gemma Galgani\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a complex girl-woman caught between the medieval and the modern and a potent reminder of spirituality in a supposedly secular age.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint | Rudolph M Bell | Hardcover | 9780226041964 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1782978","offer_id":67579483291800,"sku":"1782978","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/4121JOdwnRL.jpg?v=1790363131","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/voices-of-gemma-galgani-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-modern-saint","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}