The Blessed Angela of Foligno
Today is the eve of her feast.
Blessed Angela is known as a penitent, yet we are not privy to what her sins, which demanded such penance, actually were. Some say gossip or calumny, I don’t think anyone knows that for certain. Because of her great penitence, I think it was something else, something more ’sinister’, if you will. Not infidelity or promiscuous behavior. I think it may have something to do with child-bearing, since she lost her entire family; mother, children, husband - one by one - in the process of her conversion. I have always had the strongest intuition her sin may have had something to do with contraception or abortion. I can’t know that however - and I am just speculating of course. Regardless, it was her ardent love expressed in penitence for which she is venerated as a saint, not her sins, nor the mystical revelations she experienced after her conversion.
[Art: Mystical Communion of the Blessed Angela of Foligno.]
The following are two of my previous posts on Blessed Angela:
