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The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame

The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame

Mundi Press, Sapientia

Paperback

Catholicism

ISBN13: 9798184866703
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 29 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She screamed in basilicas. She drank the wash-water of lepers. She described a fire that burned without destroying and a darkness that was more real than light. Angela of Foligno was one of the most extraordinary mystics of the medieval world, and her testimony remains as powerful and as unsettling today as it was seven hundred years ago.

The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame traces the life and spiritual vision of the Umbrian laywoman who became known as the mistress of theologians. Born around 1248 into a prosperous family in the Italian town of Foligno, Angela lived a conventional life until a shattering conversion in her late thirties set her on a path of radical poverty, severe penance, and mystical encounters of overwhelming intensity. Her experiences, dictated to her Franciscan confessor and preserved in the text known as the Memorial, constitute one of the most vivid and unflinching accounts of divine encounter in the Christian tradition.

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