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   Loudun possessions. The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons.

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   Feb 18, 2014 · At Loudun, on 1 October 1632, three nuns were declared 'possessed'; by December 1634 nine were declared 'possessed' and eight others 'obsessed'. The first task of an exorcist was diagnostic: to identify by name the devil to whom the demoniac gave voice and to discover where in the body it resided.

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   Aug 6, 2021 · In 1632, 18 young nuns at the Ursulines convent in Loudun, France, began showing signs of demonic possession. What began as ghostly visions in the middle of the night would become one of the most contentious and disturbing sensations of the 17th century. The saga dragged on for six years and led to a local priest, Urbain Grandier, being burned ...

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   Sep 2, 2023 · The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France. Discover how a whole convent of French nuns ended up possessed, what happened at the witch trial that followed, and the terrible aftermath. In the year 1632, a bout of the black plague broke out in the French town of Loudun, eventually killing around 3,700 of the 14,000 residents.

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   Possession at Loudun, 1632-34. Urbain Grandier, SJ, in 1627, before the crisis. One of the most celebrated of all cases of bewitchment and/or possession occurred in the French town of Loudun during the mid-1630s. The most spectacular of a series of such cases, it involved a whole convent of Ursuline nuns, allegedly possessed as a result of the ...

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   [1] Urbain Grandier, who was convicted and executed as a result of the Loudun possessions. The case contains similar themes to other witchcraft trials that occurred throughout western Europe in the 17th century, such as the Aix-en-Provence possessions (France) in 1611 or the Pendle witches (England) in 1612 before reaching the New World by the ...

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   What happened at Loudun in 1632?

   • According to ecclesiastical records, the events at Loudun began on 22 September 1632, when Jeanne des Anges, the prioress of the Ursuline convent, Sister de Colombiers, the sub-prioress, and Sister Marthe de Saint-Monique, a junior nun, were each visited during the night by an apparition of 'a man of the cloth' asking for help.

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   What happened in 1632?

   • In 1632, 18 young nuns at the Ursulines convent in Loudun, France, began showing signs of demonic possession. What began as ghostly visions in the middle of the night would become one of the most contentious and disturbing sensations of the 17th century.

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   What was the Loudun possessed affair?

   • The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair ( French: affaire des possédées de Loudun ), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons.

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   What happened in France in 1632?

   • These apparitions later devolved into convulsions and speaking in tongues. The bizarre case led to one of the most famous witch trials in the history of France. On the night of 22 September 1632, one of the junior nuns at Loudun saw an apparition of a recently deceased priest.

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   What happened in Loudun before the demoniac crisis?

   • The most striking event in Loudun before the demoniac crisis, however, was a devastating outbreak of plague from May to September 1632, which killed 3,700 out of a population of 14,000. An evil power had struck the town.

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   Who were Loudun nuns of occultism?

   • Loudun, Nuns of The second of three cases of demonic possession reported in seventeenth-century France. The first involved Father Louis Gaufridi and Sister Madeleine de la Palud de Demandolx at Aix-en-Provence in 1611. Source for information on Loudun, Nuns of: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology dictionary.

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   Loudun, Nuns of. The second of three cases of demonic possession reported in seventeenth-century France. The first involved Father Louis Gaufridi and Sister Madeleine de la Palud de Demandolx at Aix-en-Provence in 1611. The third was the case of the Nuns of the Franciscan Tertiaries at Louviers concerned with Sister Madeleine Bavent and Father ...