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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecstasy |
 | | Ecstasy is always accompanied by noble attitudes of the body, whereas in hospitals one often marks motions of the body that are convulsive or repelling; barring, of course, any counter-command of the hypnotist. |
 | | The case which most approaches, on the surface, the ecstasy of the saints is that of Helen Smith, of Geneva, whom Professor Flournoy studied carefully during the closing years of the nineteenth century. |
 | | The ecstasies of the saints were, it was thought, of exactly the same nature. |
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