11 July 1701, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Clement XI
Canonized
9 October 2013, (equivalent canonization), Apostolic Palace, Vatican City by Pope Francis
Feast
4 January
7 January (United States)
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).
^Calufetti, Abele (1992). Angela da Foligno mistica dell'Ognibene (in Italian). Paoline. p. 10. ISBN 978-88-315-0656-4.
^Sandaeus, Maximilianus (1624). R.P. Maximiliani Sandaei Societatis Jesu Doctoris Theologi, ... Theologiae Pars Prima: Theologia-Varia Ad primam partem Summae D. Thomae Doctoris Angelici. uatuor libris, tum Profanae, tum Sacrae,Theologiae Ortum, Progreßiones, Partitionem variam, Notiones, & utriusque Arcana, ac Imagines disquirens, & repraesentans. Mainz (Moguntia): Mylius Birckmannus. p. 549.
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