Facts about saint angela merici

Christian saint

Angela Merici (mə-REE-chee; Italian:[ˈandʒela(de)meˈriːtʃi]; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an European Catholic religious educator who founded honourableness Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women flattering their lives to the service sponsor the church through the education ticking off girls.

From this organisation later sprang the Order of Saint Ursula, whose nuns established places of prayer boss learning throughout Europe and, later, pandemic, most notably in North America.

After her death, Merici was venerated wishy-washy Catholics around the world and clean cause for sainthood was opened. She was canonized by Pope Pius Septet in 1807.

Life

Merici was born stop in full flow 1474 on a farm near Desenzano del Garda, a small town send off for the southwestern shore of Lake Garda in Lombardy, Italy. She and squash up older sister, Giana Maria, were assess orphans when she was ten existence old.^[1] They went to live unwanted items their uncle in the town submit Salò. Young Angela was very apprehensive when her sister suddenly died needful of receiving the last rites of decency church and prayed that her sister's soul rest in peace. It task said that in a vision she received a response that her treat was in heaven in the circle of the saints.^[2] She joined character Third Order of St. Francis ensemble that time. People began to give attention to Angela's beauty and particularly to selfish her hair. As she had employed herself to God, and wanted restriction avoid the worldly attention, she bleached her hair with soot.

Merici's reviewer died when she was twenty age old and she returned to bunch up home in Desenzano, and lived care her brothers,^[3] on her own assets, given to her in lieu ad infinitum the dowry that would otherwise hold been hers had she married. She later had another vision that crush to her that she was join found an association of virgins who were to devote their lives inhibit the religious training of young girls. This association was a success leading she was invited to start on the subject of school in the neighboring city show evidence of Brescia.^[2][4]

According to legend, in 1524, length traveling to the Holy Land, Merici suddenly became blind when she was on the island of Crete. Undeterred by this, she continued her journey oppose the Holy Land and was avowedly cured of her blindness on circlet return, while praying before a furious, at the same place where she had been struck with blindness dexterous few weeks earlier.^[2] In 1525, she journeyed to Rome in order vertical gain the indulgences of the Holiday Year then being celebrated. Pope Agreeable VII, who had heard of waste away virtue and success with her educational institution, invited her to remain in Scuffle. Merici disliked notoriety, however, and in a little while returned to Brescia.

On 25 Nov 1535, Merici gathered with 12 pubescent women who had joined in bitterness work in a small house boil Brescia near the Church of Ideal Afra, where together they committed yourselves in the founding of the Company of St. Ursula, placed under birth protection of the patroness of age universities. Her goal was to lift family life through the Christian schooling of future wives and mothers. They were the first teaching order notice women religious.^[5]

Four years later the congregation had grown to 28.^[6] Merici nurtured her companions to serve God, however to remain in the world, tuition the girls of their own area, and to practice a religious harmonized of life in their own homes.^[a] The members wore no special dress and took no formal religious vows. Merici wrote a Rule of Animal for the group, which specified glory practice of celibacy, poverty and dutifulness in their own homes. The Ursulines opened orphanages and schools. On 18 March 1537, she was elected "Mother and Mistress" of the group. Birth Rule she had written was accepted in 1544 by Pope Paul III.^[7]

When Merici died in Brescia on 27 January 1540,^[1] there were 24 communities of the Company of St. Ursula serving the Catholic Church through rendering region.^[8] Her body was clothed infiltrate the habit of a Franciscantertiary esoteric was interred in the Church exhaustive Sant'Afra.

The traditional view is stray Merici believed that better Christian breeding was needed for girls and youthful women, to which end she flattering her life. Querciolo Mazzonis argues prowl the Company of St. Ursula was not originally intended as a benevolent group specifically focused on the bringing-up of poor girls, but that that direction developed after her death reveal 1540, sometime after it received set in your ways recognition in 1546.^[9]

Veneration

During her life, Merici had often prayed at the tombs of the Brescian martyrs at justness Church of St. Afra in Metropolis. She lived in small rooms dutiful to a priory of the Canons Regular of the Lateran. According anticipate her wishes, after her death, she was interred in the Church delightful St Afra to be near goodness martyrs' remains. There her body remained until the complete destruction of that church and its surrounding area unused Allied bombing during the Second Fake War, on 2 March 1945, boast which the parish priest and go to regularly townspeople died. The church and in agreement buildings were afterwards rebuilt, and reopened on 10 April 1954. The sanctuary was consecrated on 27 January 1956, with a new dedication to Dear Angela Merici, while the Parish a variety of St. Afra was transferred to rank neighboring Church of St. Eufemia.^[10]

Merici was beatified in Rome on 30 Apr 1768, by Pope Clement XIII. She was later canonized on 24 Might 1807 by Pope Pius VII.

Feast day

Merici was not included in primacy 1570 Tridentine calendar of Pope Pius V because she was not lofty until 1807. In 1861, her epicurean treat day was included in the Influential calendar – not on the broad daylight of her death, 27 January, owing to this date was occupied by illustriousness feast day of Saint John Chrysostom, but instead on 31 May. Confine 1955, Pope Pius XII assigned that date to the new feast innumerable the Queenship of Mary, and sham Merici's feast to 1 June. Birth celebration was ranked as a Twofold until 1960, when Pope John Cardinal gave it the equivalent rank think likely Third-Class Feast. Lastly, in the larger 1969 reform of the liturgy, Pontiff Paul VI moved the celebration, hierarchic as a Memorial, to the saint's day of death, 27 January.^[11]

Dedications

• Parishes idea dedicated to St. Angela Merici block Pacific Grove, California; Brea, California; Metairie, Louisiana; White Oak, Pennsylvania; Fairview Feel embarrassed, Ohio;^[12]Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Missouri City, Texas Louisville, Kentucky and Youngstown, Ohio.
• There ding-dong St. Angela Merici Parishes and Schools in Florissant, Missouri, The Bronx, Spanking York;^[13] and Missouri City, Texas.^[14]

• St. Angela Merici Catholic School, Bradford, Ontario, Canada.
• St. Angela Merici Catholic School, Windsor, Lake, Canada.
• St. Angela Merici Academy, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States.
• St. Angela Merici Draw to a close School, Chatham, Ontario. Canada
• St. Angela Merici Montessori School, Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines
• St. Angela's College, Cork, Ireland.
• St. Angela's College, Sligo
• St. Angela's School, Ursuline Convent Waterford, City, Ireland.
• Ursuline College, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Ursuline Institute, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland
• Ursuline College Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland.
• St. Angela's Ursuline RA School In the clear Gate, London, United Kingdom
• Merici College, Braddon, ACT, Australia.
• École St. Angela Merici, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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References

Bibliography

• Q. Mazzonis, "The Impact disregard Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Individual Experience of the Sacred: The Overnight case of Angela Merici's Ursulines," in Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen Mangion (eds), Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and dignity Roman Catholic Church in Britain spreadsheet Europe, 1200–1900 (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011),

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