Death & Resurrection
While the British "Red Coats" occupied the harbor of Providence, RI in 1776, a minor epidemic of "The Columbus Fever" spread throughout Rhode Island, and Jemima was infected. She was plagued by this debilitating illness which culminated in a fevered state, subsequent to which she was bedridden and near death. When she awoke she claimed that she was sent by God to preach his message. This propelled her to claim that she was a holy vessel of Jesus Christ and God and the Holy Spirit. She became the "Publick Universal Friend", reborn at her eulogy, and never again responded to her original birth name.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and/or resurrection:
“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
“For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 22:30.