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| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2020 10:05 p.m. PST |
"Beguine visionary Agnes Blannbekin (c.1244-1315) of Vienna loved to read. Her confessor would read hagiographies and sermons, and God even granted her miraculous light to read at night after the fire had run down. In her home and the Franciscan church she attended, she was surrounded by a rich artistic world, with tablet icons of the virgin martyrs and a gilt crucifix that stunningly reflected the sun against gold. Steeped in contemporary religious culture as she was, it's not a surprise that her Revelations share much in common with other women visionaries and mystics of her time (Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude of Helfta, Angela of Foligno, Marguerite Porete, Christina of Stommeln, Marguerite d'Oignt, Clare of Montefalco, and Ida of Louvain are just some of her near-exact contemporaries). She experienced a lifelong intense zeal for the Eucharist and, like Ida, devotion to the Christ-child…"
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