Marcelline Pauper (born 1663) was one of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers. She asked to receive the stigmata as repayment for a sacrilege committed at the Sister's chapel, and received them on 26 April 1702.[1][2]

Pauper's autobiography was not published until 1871.[3]

References

  1. ^ Imbert-Gourbeyre, Antoine; Joachim Bouflet (1996). La stigmatisation: 1894. Editions Jérôme Millon. pp. 365–67. ISBN 978-2-84137-035-1. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
  2. ^ Summers, Montague (1926). History of Witchcraft and Demonology. pp. 145–46. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
  3. ^ DeJean, Joan (1991). Tender geographies: women and the origins of the novel in France. Columbia UP. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-231-06230-5.


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