Surprising Mystics

The renowned Jesuit author Herbert Thurston's final book about one of his favorite topic—mystics and their extraordinary experiences in which he reviews the lives of Margery Kempe of Lynn, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Domenica dal Paradiso, et al. "Remarkable collection of studies of eccentric sanctity...of extreme interest." Times Literary Supplement "So much was [Fr. Thurston] a priest as well as a scholar, so lovingly intent on the study of the mystic as a whole person, that these 13 biographical