The Dark Box Quotes

“the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.”
― John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

“When Teresa reported fresh visions and voices, and in particular, the actual, physical presence of Jesus, he was sceptical. He recommended that she get out more,”
― John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession