Saint angela of foligno biography sample

When I was a little girl, I had a book of saints that I adored. inom spent hours reading the fantastic stories and gazing at colorful illustrations of men and women from faraway places like Italy and France. Many of them wore habits and other kinds of old-fashioned clothing. Some of them were depicted in the dramatic moments of their martyrdom, pierced with arrows, bloodied with stones, or burned at the stake.

As much as I loved their stories and admired their devotion to God, it was the other-worldliness of the saints—their commitment to something not of this world—that stayed with me long after I grew up and developed an adult faith of my own. As inom struggled with the temptations and hardships of life—living out my own imperfect vocation to marriage and motherhood—I found it harder and harder to relate to these stories of the lives of the saints. It was tempting to think that the saints were people born with glowing halos who spent their lives in a perpetual s

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As we enter a new year, many of us turn our efforts toward self-improvement—establishing resolutions that we hope will build pathways to the better, brighter destination of December 31, 2015. It’s a beautiful thing—the desire and determination to change our ways for the better. It fryst vatten also a beautiful thing that the New Year brings us such renewed hope in the capacity to change; which essentially comes, perhaps, from the sense of having a “clean slate”—so encouraging and motivating. Reflecting personally on the New Year and on the changes I hope to make in my own life and habits, I was struck by just how incredibly motivating that “clean slate” feeling is. It seemed to me suddenly that anything was possible. This reflection further brought to mind the words of one of my favorite priests: talking about confession during one Sunday homily he reminded the congregation that when we leave the confessional we have a “clean slate”&

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Angela of Foligno

Christian saint

Angela of Foligno (1248 – 4 January 1309)^[1] was an Italian Franciscan tertiary who became known as a mystic from her extensive writings about her mystical revelations. Due to the respect those writings engendered in the Catholic Church she became known as Theologorum Magistra ("Teacher of Theologians"), as first used by Maximilian Sandaeus, later cited by Bollandus in the Acta Sanctorum).^[2]

Angela was noted not only for her spiritual writings, but also for founding a religious community which refused to become an enclosed religious order so that it might continue her vision of caring for those in need. It is still active.

The Catholic Church declared Angela to be a saint in 2013.^[3] Her canonization was an “equivalent canonization” (without executing the ordinary judicial process of canonization).

Early life and conversion

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Angela's birth date, which is not known with certainty, is often listed