Chris Kenny
Blessed Angela of Foligno
Construction with found twig
£365.00 (framed)
17cm x 18cm
January 4th
Angela misspent her youth - revelling in sensuality, surrounding herself with unnecessary possessions, committing sacrilege even.
However all that changed when she encountered St Francis in a dream... she confessed her sins at some length, gave away all her property and became a penitent. At around this time all her family died of the plague.
She expressed her faith through 'anorexia mirabilis', refusing food, and instead drinking the pus from the sores of the sick which she said was as "sweet as the Eucharist".
Angela would fall into a visionary trance at the drop of a hat. She dictated her revelations to Brother Arnold and these became her book of 'Visionum et Instructionum' in which she emphasises the importance of divine light, obtained by almost non-stop praying.
She only became a full saint on 9th October 2013, more than 700 years after her death.
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