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The Kongo Saint AnthonyJohn K. Thornton

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The Kongo Saint Anthony

Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706

by John K. Thornton

A historical reconstruction of the life of Beatriz Kimpa Vita, the young Kongo prophet who claimed possession by Saint Anthony and was executed in 1706. Thornton situates her movement in the civil wars and Catholic culture of the kingdom of Kongo.

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