Max Gabriel Cornelius, Die Jungfrau ekstatische Katharina Emmerich (1885)
Although Mr. Gabriel Cornelius Max (by golly, amoelbarroco) is contained enough to paint Ms. Emmerich, she and her inspiring each other, which prompted Huysmans unleashed the genie in a work that every good Christian ought to know or even know by heart: the hagiography of St. Lydwine (or Liduvina or Lidia) of Schiedam. Huysmans in 1901 and stood at the foot of the Cross, but there are many ways to fall ... see:
"Bientôt, Lydwine put ne même plus sur les genoux trainer is s'agripper et aux sièges et aux piggy banks, il lui sur sa couche falluto croup et ce fut, cette fois, pour jamais; the plaie qui n ' avdoute du Moyen Age, ou Le Feu sacré qui le mal des Ardents entreprit bras droit et en you eat them you jusqu'aux chairs; et les nerfs are tordirent éclatèrent, sauf a bras et qui l'retinto empêcha you to be detached du tronc , il fut dès lors Lydwine to be impossible à tourner de ce côté et il ne lui he remains free bras gauche pour sa tête soulever PourRite qui à son tour. Des névralgies Effroyables lui qui l'assaillirent forèrent, ainsi qu'avec a vilebrequin them frappèrent tempes et lui, à coups de Maillet redoublés, we crane, it is fendit front of racine des cheveux jusqu'au milieu du nez; you menton is Decollo Inférieure sous la lèvres et la bouche enfla, l'oeil et l'autre droit s'éteignit devint if qu'il ne pouvait supporter sensitive, sans saigne the moindsubversive engage in certain vulgar forms of dissipation ... How well she knew Ms Emilia giving, as Huysmans, a text that puzzles obtuse:
"Lord do not you come ... Why have spent the time when, at the price of torture, torn skin, destroncada head, went, accurate to the appointment, carried burning? Why not buy from me is given that price? What I'm doing, I find it harder, more effort, a long maturity, tedious, endless. As Teresa, who loved you so much, I'm thirsty for martyrdom, and I would go to land of the Moors, if there martyr himself. Time miserable as ours, where the beautiful garnet no effective blood curdles and does not shine! Of the two outstanding bloodlines, that of martyrdom andthe war, the first and is something like the fabulous and magical stones that were lost, and the other, also want to make ruby rare, historic, save after the case of a museum! Age reduced! Unable to be a martyr! Within an hour, earn, join you ... If you were willing, sweet mistress, I would offer liquor to refresh your bloody sores ... I would give you how to renew the Grail. I am very unhappy because I am not allowed to flush the sources of my veins. Unable to suffer, not to die! "(Emilia Pardo Bazán, Dulce owner, 1911)
nailed it, I think ... showing that certain mystical outbursts are revolts against the ordinariness anibalescas. Having so, martyrdom does not seem to have a better option