Archduchess Magdalena of Austria

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Archduchess Magdalena of Austria
Roman Catholic

Magdalena of Austria (

archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. She is a Venerable in the Catholic Church.[2]

Life

Early life

Archduchess Magdalena of Austria was born on 14 August 1531 as the sixth child and fourth daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) and his wife, born Princess Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547). She had a strict, religious upbringing with a heavy influence from Jesuits
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Life as an abbess

Archduchess Magdalena and her younger sister

Society of Jesus
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She became the first abbess of the new convent where she was joined by her younger sisters Archduchesses Margaret (1536–1567) and Archduchess Helena of Austria (1543–1574).[3][4] Magdalena died on 10 September 1590 at the age of 58 after a short sickness. She was buried in the Jesuit Church (Jesuitenkirche) in Hall in Tirol. In 1706, her remains were transferred to the church of the convent.

Veneration

Magdalena's cause was formally opened on 23 August 1905, granting her the title of

Venerable.[5]

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ Profile on Darlene's Family Genealogy
  2. ^ "Magdalena of Austria | Eduard Habsburg". First Things. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  3. ^ Harald Tersch: Österreichische Selbstzeugnisse des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (1400–1650). Böhlau ed, Vienna 1998, p. 261.
  4. ^ Johann Jacob Staffler: Tirol und Vorarlberg: in 2 Theilen. Tirol und Vorarlberg, statistisch : mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen. vol. 1, Rauch, 1839, p. 512.
  5. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 139.
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  7. ^ a b c d Priebatsch, Felix (1908), "Wladislaw II.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 54, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 688–696
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    Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Philipp I. der Schöne von Oesterreich" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 112 – via Wikisource
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  9. ^ Boureau, Alain (1995). The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage. Translated by Cochrane, Lydia G. The University of Chicago Press. p. 96.
  10. ^ Noubel, P., ed. (1877). Revue de l'Agenais [Review of the Agenais]. Vol. 4. Société académique d'Agen. p. 497.