In January 1842, the French Jew Alphonse Ratisbonne entered a small church in Romeas a tourist. A fewminutes later hewas prostrate on thefloor of a side chapel, weeping, having been overcome by a vision of the VirginMary. He left the church as a believing Christian, and he received the sacrament of baptism eleven days later. He spent the rest of his life making his mystical experience available to others, especially Jews, often in ways that his critics described as coercive. People touched by his story joined fellow seekers in confraternities, wore and exchanged blessedmedallions, and some ultimately professed the vows of his religious order, Notre Dame de Sion, to work for the salvation of Jews. Ratisbonne’s story mobilized these individuals as a bulwark against a secularizing society and provided them with tools for reproducing his experience of divine power in the midst of modern urban life. Ratisbonne’s experience is hardly unknown. He was famous in his lifetime as the modern Saint Paul, confronted by God on his road to Damascus, and historians since have been similarly fascinated by his story. Referring to Ratisbonne as the “new Saul” linked him to Christianity’s earliest era and suggested that he was somehow out of step with the nineteenth century, that in being knocked off his feet he had somehow also been knocked out of his era. Many of Ratisbonne’s followers appreciated the notion that he had turned his back on the modern

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机械复制时代的转变：罗马和巴黎的阿尔方斯·拉蒂斯邦 (Alphonse Ratisbonne)

1842 年 1 月，法国犹太人 Alphonse Ratisbonne 以游客的身份进入罗马市的一座小教堂。几分钟后，他被圣母玛利亚的幻象征服了，跪在一个小教堂的地板上，哭泣着。他以虔诚的基督徒身份离开教堂，十一天后接受了洗礼。他的余生都在向其他人，尤其是犹太人提供他的神秘体验，通常以他的批评者所描述的强制性方式。被他的故事感动的人们加入了兄弟会的其他寻求者，佩戴并交换了祝福的勋章，有些人最终宣誓了他的宗教组织 Notre Dame de Sion 为拯救犹太人而努力的誓言。Ratisbonne 的故事动员这些人成为反对世俗化社会的堡垒，并为他们提供了在现代城市生活中再现他对神力体验的工具。Ratisbonne 的经历几乎无人知晓。他在生前以现代圣保罗而闻名，在前往大马士革的路上遇到了上帝，历史学家也同样为他的故事着迷。将 Ratisbonne 称为“新扫罗”将他与基督教最早的时代联系起来，并暗示他在某种程度上与 19 世纪格格不入，在被撞倒时，他也不知何故也被撞出了他的时代。Ratisbonne 的许多追随者赞赏他背弃现代 他在生前以现代圣保罗而闻名，在前往大马士革的路上遇到了上帝，历史学家也同样为他的故事着迷。将 Ratisbonne 称为“新扫罗”将他与基督教最早的时代联系起来，并暗示他在某种程度上与 19 世纪格格不入，在被打倒时，他不知何故也被淘汰了他的时代。Ratisbonne 的许多追随者赞赏他背弃现代 他在生前以现代圣保罗而闻名，在前往大马士革的路上遇到了上帝，历史学家也同样为他的故事着迷。将 Ratisbonne 称为“新扫罗”将他与基督教最早的时代联系起来，并暗示他在某种程度上与 19 世纪格格不入，在被撞倒时，他也不知何故也被撞出了他的时代。Ratisbonne 的许多追随者赞赏他背弃现代 在被打倒时，他不知何故也被淘汰出他的时代。Ratisbonne 的许多追随者赞赏他背弃现代 在被打倒时，他不知何故也被淘汰出他的时代。Ratisbonne 的许多追随者赞赏他背弃现代