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De Beukelaer (Soeurs)
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1877 Anvers
Pauline Marie Françoise (° Antwerp, 24.9.1837; + Antwerp, 14.2.1898) and Maria Fr. (° Antwerp, 28.7.1844; + Antwerp, 13.2.1925). Spinster sisters and property-owners living in Lange Nieuwstraat, 31 in October 1877 when they took portraits of ecstatic mystic and stigmatic Louise Lateau in Bois d'Haine. This initiative incurred the displeasure of the local bishop who attempted to restrict circulation of the photographs. No other examples of the De Beukelaer sisters' photographic activity appear to be documented, although it is clear that photography served their spiritual convictions. One obituary for Pauline, praising her good works, adds: "Photography, which she had learned and practised with considerable art, must have produced treasures for our [religious] missions" (Het Handelsblad, 15.2.1898).
Pauline Marie Françoise (° Antwerp, 24.9.1837; + Antwerp, 14.2.1898) and Maria Fr. (° Antwerp, 28.7.1844; + Antwerp, 13.2.1925). Spinster sisters and property-owners living in Lange Nieuwstraat, 31 in October 1877 when they took portraits of ecstatic mystic and stigmatic Louise Lateau in Bois d'Haine. This initiative incurred the displeasure of the local bishop who attempted to restrict circulation of the photographs. No other examples of the De Beukelaer sisters' photographic activity appear to be documented, although it is clear that photography served their spiritual convictions. One obituary for Pauline, praising her good works, adds: "Photography, which she had learned and practised with considerable art, must have produced treasures for our [religious] missions" (Het Handelsblad, 15.2.1898).
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1877 Anvers
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VAN OSSELAER, Tine. "The 'Affair of the Photographs': Controlling the Public Image of a Nineteenth-Century Stigmatic", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68 No. 4 (October 2017), pp. 784-806.
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DIRECTORY_2017#2401
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SFJ / MD new 14.6.2022