Louise Lateau

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Louise Lateau

The case of Louise Lateau (* 1850 in Bois-d'Haine , Manage municipality near La Louvière , Belgium ; † August 25, 1883 there ) is one of the best-documented cases of stigmatization . She became so well known in the 1860s for her visions and stigmata that over a three-year period she was studied by more than a hundred doctors and two hundred theologians.

Life

Louise Lateau was the daughter of a Belgian working-class family from Bois-d'Haine. Her father died when Louise was a toddler. Her mother gave her away as a housemaid when she was eleven. Shortly afterwards she was brought back by her mother and had to work as a dressmaker. During an epidemic of cholera in Bois D'Haine in 1866, sixteen-year-old Louise Lateau cared for six of the epidemic victims. In the following year she became seriously ill herself. The illnesses lasted until 1868. On April 15, 1868 she was so seriously ill that she received the sacraments . Six days later she started showing the stigmata. This was followed by ecstasy, visions and finally the cessation of food intake in 1871. Ecclesiastical and secular physicians examined Lateau, with some asserting “that it was a question of an experimentally verified, wonderful intervention of God in the natural order”, others referred to the validity of the natural laws, which are to be set absolutely. Rudolf Virchow only wanted to accept the offer to “organize an observation” himself on his own terms and not “go into circumstances whose peculiarities I cannot overlook”. Louise Lateau died on August 25, 1883. The request to press ahead with a beatification process was refused by the Holy See in March 2009.

In his study, the historian David Blackbourne pointed out that there are a number of features in the life of Louise Lateau that are also found in Anna Katharina Emmerick , Bernadette Soubirous and Cathérine Labouré . Like this rough treatment, Lateau suffered early separation from the family or loss of a family member and a life of dependence.

literature

  • David Blackbourn : Marpingen - The German Lourdes in the Bismarckian Age , Historical Contributions of the Saarbrücken State Archives, Volume 6. Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808556-8-6
  • Henri van Looy: Biographie de Louise Lateau, la stigmatisée de Bois-d'Haine: d'après les documents authentiques. Casterman, Tournai 1879.
  • The stigmatists of the nineteenth century: Anna Katharina Emmerich, Maria von Mörl, Domenica Lazzari, Juliana Weiskircher, Josepha Kümi, Bertina Bonquisson, Bernarda von Krenze, Maria Rosa Adriani, Maria Cherubina, Clara von St. Francis, Louise Lateau, Hesena von Rosawatta, Margaretha Bays and Esperanza by Jesus based on authentic sources. Manz, Regensburg 1877.
  • Paul Majunke : Louise Lateau, her miraculous life and her meaning in the German church conflicts. Germania, Berlin 1875.
  • August Rohling : Louise Lateau, the stigmatist of Bois d'Haine: according to authentic medical and theological documents for Jews and Christians of all denominations / presented. by August Rohling. Paderborn, Schöningh, 1874.
  • Friedrich Hofmann: In front of Louise Lateau's house . In: The Gazebo . Volume 5, 1875, pp. 84-88 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Carus Sterne: The Mystical Illness . In: The Gazebo . Issue 48, 1875, pp. 804-807 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blackbourne, p. 41
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Eßbach, Sociology of Religion 2: Unleashed Market and Artificial Lifeworld as Unleashed Market and Artificial Lifeworld as Cradle of New Religions , Vol. 1, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019, p. 494
personal data
SURNAME Lateau, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian mystic
DATE OF BIRTH 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bois-d'Haine , manage
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1883
Place of death Bois-d'Haine , manage