HIST 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Counter-Reformation, The Interior Castle
26 Mar 2019
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Difficulties that holy women had to face in the post. Physicality where women identified with the suffering of christ and pain and paralysis. This kind of spirituality came increasingly under suspicion from the more rigorous catholic church which wanted to promote different kinds of spirituality like devotion to the church as well as missions. Frauds claimed to have access to the divine. The inquisition investigated women such as st. theresa. Many of the beatas were punished and condemned for fraud and imprisoned, given penances and in some cases they were executed. St. theresa came through her encounter with the. Said that joan of arc"s visions were fake and they came from the devil. St. theresa was not condemned and the inquisition against her was dropped. She was very obedient to the church which could be why she wasn"t condemned during the.
