Case file · High strangeness
Catherine de Saint-Augustin's battles with demons
Catherine de Saint-Augustin, a nursing nun at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec who died in 1668, described years of visions and assaults by demons, published by Jesuit Paul Ragueneau in 1671.
1671 CE · 46.81, -71.21 · status: account
The account
She believed she suffered to win souls and to free the colony from evil spirits, and was linked to a case of 'possession' in the colony around 1660. She was beatified in 1989 and is a co-founder of the Church in Canada.
The sceptical view
Modern readers see the accounts as religious experience shaped by the devotional literature of the time.