![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The testimony of several nuns later established that Carlini had not only faked her stigmata and flirted with a priest, but engaged in a same-sex relationship with Bartolomea Crivelli, another nun.įirst written about in Judith Brown's Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986), Carlini's case is intriguing and has sparked much debate. Beginning in 1619 and continuing through 1623, these inquiries focused on whether Carlini might be a saint and the investigators tried to determine the validity of her spiritual experiences, which included receiving the stigmata (the marks associated with the wounds inflicted on Christ at his crucifixion), exchanging hearts with Christ, and becoming Christ's bride in a public ceremony in which Christ praised her through her own mouth. Carlini appears in the file as a result of clerical inquiries ( processi) concerning her claims of mystical visions and miracles. Abbess of the Theatine convent Holy Mary of Pescia Italy, Benedetta Carlini was born January 20th in Vellano and figures in the Miscellanea Medicea, a file containing short transcripts, letters and summaries of documents no longer extant (Brown 1986). ![]()
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