Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart
Discalced Carmelite Order) | |
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| Beatified | 9 June 1929 by Pope Pius XI |
| Canonized | 19 March 1934 by Pope Pius XI |
| Major shrine | Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, Florence |
| Feast | 1 September |
Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, OCD (15 July 1747 – 7 March 1770) was an
Life
She was born Anna Maria Redi to a large noble family in
By April 1764, Redi had completed her studies and her father brought her home. Once there she decided to test herself to see if she could in fact handle the rigors of the life of that Order. Eventually following that call, on 1 September 1764, she formally submitted her request for admission to the assembled Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of St. Teresa in Florence. In keeping with the custom of the time, she then left the monastery for two months and stayed with a friend of the family in the city, while awaiting a formal reply to her petition.[3]
Redi was admitted to the monastery in November 1764. On 11 March of the following year, she was given the religious habit of the Order and the religious name of Teresa Margaret Marianne of the Sacred Heart. She professed her religious vows as a member of the Order on 12 March 1766.[3]
Teresa Margaret was a very private and spiritual person. She was assigned to the office of infirmarian (nurse) for the community, which she carried out diligently. She had a special gift for reaching the deaf and mentally ill nuns among her charges. At the same time, she was able to grow deeply in her interior life. She was given a special contemplative experience concerning the words of I John 4:8, "God is love", which was a phrase she would repeat often.
At the start of 1770, an epidemic broke out in the monastic community. Teresa Margaret worked ceaselessly caring for the other nuns. In early March she seemed to have a premonition of her sudden death,
Veneration
The disease that had caused Teresa Margaret's death left her body very swollen and disfigured. Consequently, the nuns hesitated to have the normal viewing for the public. While the body was being transferred to their church, the disfigurement was found to have been reversed, and two days after her death her body was lifelike.
In 1806, the prioress and nuns of St. Teresa in Florence promoted the beatification of the mystic nun by publishing a biography.
Her
See also
- Carmelite Rule of St. Albert
- Book of the First Monks
- Constitutions of the Carmelite Order
References
- ^ "Patron Saints Index: Saint Teresa Margaret Redi". 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
- ^ a b c Stein, Edith. St. Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b c "Santa Teresa Margherita Redi". Santi Toscani (in Italian). Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ St. Teresa Margaret Redi
- ^ "Biography". 8 July 2010. Archived from the original on 8 July 2010.
- ^ P. Palmieri, La santa, i miracoli e la Rivoluzione. Una storia di politica e devozione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
- ^ Breve Compendio della Vita della Serva di Dio Suor Teresa Margarita Redi del Cuor di Gesù Monaca Teresiana Dedicata Alla Sagra Real Maestà Di Carlo Ludovico Infante di Spagna Re di Etruria dalla Priora, e Religiose del suo Monastero di Firenze. Rome : Per Antonio Fulgoni. 1806.
- St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart in Volume IV of the Collected Works of Blessed Edith Stein The Hidden Life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts. Edited by Dr. L. Gelber and Michael Linssen, O.C.D. (1992) ICS Publications.
Bibliography
Hervé Roullet, Sainte Thérèse-Marguerite Redi, Une spiritualité du Coeur de Jésus, Coll. « Saints du monde », Éd. Pierre Téqui, Paris, 2017 (fr)
External links
- Teresa Margaret Redi at Patron Saints Index Patron Saints Index: Saint Teresa Margaret Redi, at Catholic.org St. Teresa Margaret Redi - Saints & Angels, at Carmelnet St. Teresa Margaret Redi
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