January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress of Theologians) Widow
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January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress of Theologians) Widow (1249-1309) Patronage: those afflicted by sexual temptation widows against temptations against the death of children people ridiculed for their piety . Saint Angela was born in Foligno, Italy, and lived most of her life in the small Umbrian town of her birth. There was nothing remarkable about Angela's early years, and there was nothing scandalous about her life. Yet she tells us in her later writings that for over thirty years she led a mortally sinful life. Perhaps she was referring to the pride and comfort of a wealthy and fashionable existence, for she came from a family of great property, married well, and afterwards ruled a large household of children and servants. As she describes her conversion, it reads like the story of many a soul today. Fear of her damnation led her to the confessional one day. But she was afraid to tell her most serious sins, and so made a bad confession, then a sacrilegious Communion. Only greater remorse followed. Tormented in soul, she prayed to Saint Francis of Assisi, and he appeared to her in a vision. The next day she made a complete and sincere confession.
January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress of Theologians) Widow
January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress…
January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress of Theologians) Widow
January 4 Saint Angela of Foligno (Mistress of Theologians) Widow (1249-1309) Patronage: those afflicted by sexual temptation widows against temptations against the death of children people ridiculed for their piety . Saint Angela was born in Foligno, Italy, and lived most of her life in the small Umbrian town of her birth. There was nothing remarkable about Angela's early years, and there was nothing scandalous about her life. Yet she tells us in her later writings that for over thirty years she led a mortally sinful life. Perhaps she was referring to the pride and comfort of a wealthy and fashionable existence, for she came from a family of great property, married well, and afterwards ruled a large household of children and servants. As she describes her conversion, it reads like the story of many a soul today. Fear of her damnation led her to the confessional one day. But she was afraid to tell her most serious sins, and so made a bad confession, then a sacrilegious Communion. Only greater remorse followed. Tormented in soul, she prayed to Saint Francis of Assisi, and he appeared to her in a vision. The next day she made a complete and sincere confession.