After an illness consisting of paralysis, blindness, and gastric troubles, Therese Neumann, born in 1898 in Konnorsreuth, Bavaria, began to experience stigmata. This condition began in 1926, when a blood-colored serum began to ooze from her eyes, followed by the appearance of stigmata during Lent that year. For thirty-five years she bled from her eyes, feet, and hands, heard heavenly voices in ecstasy, and was alleged to have spoken archaic languages during trances, experienced miraculous cures, and subsisted exclusively on communion hosts, all before an audience of devoted followers. These experiences led to the creation of a group of advocates during her time called the Konnersreuth Circle as well as a later case for beatification in 2005, but they also led to accusations of fraud. Whatever the case, Neumann’s influence would eventually disrupt the authority of the Third Reich during World War II, though she never outright opposed it either.

Sources:

O’Sullivan, Michael E. “Disruptive Potential: Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, National Socialism, and Democracy.” In Revisiting the “Nazi Occult”: Histories, Realities, Legacies, edited by Monica Black and Eric Kurlander, New edition., 181–202. Boydell & Brewer, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt17mvhhk.12.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Therese Neumann." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 1, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Therese-Neumann.

You can read Therese Neumann's pamphlets through JSTOR:

Theresa Neumann: The Passion Flower of Konnorsreuth

A Visit to the Stigmatized Seer Therese Neumann