This article focuses on the political meaning and transnational appeal of the Belgian stigmatic Louise Lateau. It examines the reception and construction of her as a Catholic celebrity in the late nineteenth century and how these changed over time and space. For although Louise Lateau seems to have been a point of reference for European Catholics, this does not mean that her image, or what she represented to the faithful, was the same in the various countries or even within one country. Focus is on her appeal in Belgium, her home country, and in Germany where she seems to have had a special meaning for the beleaguered Catholics. In these countries Louise figured as a symbol of “Catholicism” to the faithful and their anti-Catholic opponents. In a later phase of her life however, her public image changed as she got caught up in intra-Catholic battles and turned into the prophetic type of mystic. She became a point of tension between the liberal and ultramontane Catholics.

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耻辱、预言和政治：19 世纪后期德国和比利时文化战争中的路易丝·拉托

本文重点探讨比利时污名路易丝·拉托的政治意义和跨国诉求。它考察了她作为 19 世纪后期天主教名人的接受和建设，以及这些如何随着时间和空间的变化而变化。因为虽然路易丝·拉托似乎是欧洲天主教徒的参考点，但这并不意味着她的形象，或者她对信徒的代表，在不同国家甚至在一国之内都是一样的。重点是她在比利时、她的祖国和德国的吸引力，在那里她似乎对陷入困境的天主教徒有着特殊的意义。在这些国家，路易丝被信徒和反天主教的反对者视为“天主教”的象征。然而，在她生命的后期，她的公众形象随着她卷入了天主教内部的斗争而发生了变化，变成了预言家的神秘主义者。她成为自由派和极端山地天主教徒之间的紧张点。