Febronia Ferdinanda di Gesù (1657-1718). Clarissa dele monastero di S. Chiara di Palermo

• Autores: Mario Torcivia
• Localización: Antonianum, ISSN 0003-6064, Nº. 1 (Ianuarius-Martius), 2015, págs. 101-124
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The article talks about the life and the Works of the Venerable Servant of God, Sister Febronia Ferdinanda of Jesús, originally named Rosalía Flaminia Ansalone, a Franciscan tertiary in Caccamo, a Little town near Palermo where she was born on 6 June 1657, and subsequently a nun in the S. Chiara Monastery of Palermo, where she died on 23 September 1718. This member of the "Poor Clares", a prolific writer, stands out due, above all, to the six volumes of the Contemplazioni (1752-1759), which contain many private revelations received from God and various considerations on how reeligious life has to be radically lived, in a time when the majority of the women religious were, in effect, compelled to become nuns. In view of Sister Febronia`s reputation for holiness, the process for her canonization was started a fw years after her death; yet it was stopped in the first years of the 19th Century.