27 Facts About Therese Neumann

Therese Neumann was a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic.

Therese Neumann's was born in the village of Konnersreuth in Bavaria, Germany, where she lived all her life.

Therese Neumann's was born into a large family with little income.

Therese Neumann's was a member of the Third Order of St Francis.

On 11 March 1918, Therese Neumann was partially paralyzed after falling off a stool while attending to a fire in her uncle's barn.

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Therese Neumann's sustained more falls and injuries during this period.

Therese Neumann reported that her eyesight was restored on 29 April 1923—the day Therese Neumann of Lisieux was beatified in Rome.

Therese Neumann said the saint called to her and then cured her of her paralysis and bed sores.

On 7 November 1925, Therese Neumann took to her bed again, and on 13 November claimed to have been diagnosed with appendicitis.

Therese Neumann's then announced that she had been cured of all traces of appendicitis.

Nickell suspected that Therese Neumann's claims were performed by "hysterical hypochondria" or "outright fakery".

Therese Neumann's said that on 5 March 1926, the first Friday of Lent, a wound had appeared slightly above her heart, but that she had kept this secret.

Therese Neumann's claimed that the wound above her heart reappeared on this day, and she spoke to her sister about it.

Therese Neumann's claimed the wound reappeared on Friday of the following week.

On Good Friday, Therese Neumann, according to her own testimony witnessed the entire Passion of Christ in her visions.

Therese Neumann's displayed wounds on her hands and feet accompanied by blood apparently coming from her eyes.

Therese Neumann's claimed to have especially suffered the Passion on Good Friday each year.

Therese Neumann found her behaviour suspicious as the blood would only appear from her wounds when he was asked to leave the room.

Psychoanalytic study of Therese Neumann has suggested that her stigmata resulted from post-traumatic stress symptoms expressed in unconscious self-mutilation through abnormal autosuggestibility.

From 1923 until her death in 1962, Therese Neumann professed to have consumed no food other than The Holy Eucharist, nor to have drunk any water from 1926 until her death.

Therese Neumann's was physically examined and tested by the physician Otto Seidl and four Franciscan nurses, for fifteen days .

Therese Neumann was not observed to have eaten anything suspicion was generated.

Therese Neumann's was said to have been able to understand Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

Therese Neumann's was never physically harmed, though her family home, parish church and priest's house all received direct attacks.

Therese Neumann's encouraged Fritz Gerlich to continue his opposition to Hitler and his national-socialist party.

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Therese Neumann wrote an entire chapter, Therese Neumann, The Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria, which reverently gives a vivid first-hand description of one of her Friday Passion trances.

On 18 September 1962, Therese Neumann died from cardiac arrest, after having suffered from angina pectoris for some time.