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:
“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“Yet resurrection is a sense of direction,
resurrection is a bee-line,
straight to the horde and plunder,
the treasure, the store-room,
the honeycomb....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)