Jacomijne Costers
Jacomijne Costers (c. 1462 – 1503)[1] was a nun and author whose vision of the afterlife, shown during a near-death experience, was written down in Visioen en exempel ("Vision and Exemplum").
Biography
Costers lived in the Facons Monastery in Antwerp. Facons, originally called Valkenbroek,[2] was a convent belonging to the Augustinian Congregation of Windesheim, and at the end of the 15th century there were concerns about the apparent lax discipline in the convent. In 1489 the plague struck the convent, and Jacomijne Costers was one of its victims.[3] She survived, but was shown a vision in which devils took her to face Christ. These devils asserted a right to her sinful soul, and initially Christ seemed to agree with them; the intervention of Mary (besides her patron saint John the Evangelist and Augustine, patron saint of her order) saved her. She was sent through hell and purgatory, and given the assignment to recount her vision to help restore spiritual order to her house. She authored devotional texts afterwards, including some in rhyme.[4]
Costers lived a more withdrawn life after her illness, which had left a lasting wound on her chest above her heart. She died on 28 April 1503, most likely of the plague, which struck her convent again that year.[5]
Works
Costers' work places her, like many of her fellow Augustinians, in the
Her patron saint was
References
Notes
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 174.
- ^ De Moor, Geertruida (2010). "De relatie tussen Mechelen en het Antwerpse klooster Facons". Mededelingenblad. 41 (3). Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen: 23–25.
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 172.
- ^ Scheepsma, "Illustere voorbeelden" 275.
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 175.
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 175.
- ^ Hemptinne and Góngora 215.
- ^ Scheepsma, "Modern Devotion" 574.
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 108.
- ^ Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women 175.
Bibliography
- Hemptinne, Thérèse de; Góngora, María Eugenia (2004). The Voice of Silence: Women's Literacy in a Men's Church. Isd. ISBN 9782503514888. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- Scheepsma, Wybren (2003). "Illustere voorbeelden: De invloed van de Legenda Aurea op de geschriften van de koorvrouwen van Windesheim". In Amand Berteloot (ed.). Een boec dat men te Latine heet Aurea Legenda. Hans van Dijk, Jasmin Hlatky. Waxmann Verlag. pp. 261–82. ISBN 9783830962458.
- Scheepsma, Wybren (2004). "Two Spiritual Friends from Facons". Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries: The 'modern Devotion', the Canonesses of Windesheim, and Their Writings. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843830481.
- Scheepsma, Wybren (2006). "Modern devotion". In Margaret Schaus (ed.). Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 573–74. ISBN 9780415969444. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
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