Events Tagged: "Christ"

St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas both defending truth from different angles - Bonaventure: 'Christ is the medium or center of all sciences' - Both affirm reason reaches God

St. Angela of Foligno: Christ appears during Mass - 'I did not love you in jest. Look at Me and see if there is any part of Me that does not proclaim love for you' - Christ shows wounds: 'These I bore for you. I suffered all this because I loved you with an excessive love'

St. Bridget: Christ appears - 'I have chosen you as My bride... You shall be My channel'

St. Bridget of Sweden: Christ dictates prayer - 'O Jesus Christ, eternal sweetness to those who love You, joy surpassing all joy and all desire'

Richard Rolle dies - hermit mystic wrote 'Fire of Love' about physical heat felt in contemplation

St. Catherine: Miraculously learns to write (previously illiterate) - Christ: 'I am He who is, you are she who is not' - Begins dictating 'Dialogue' - Christ on mercy: 'My mercy is incomparably greater than all the sins anyone could commit'

St. Vincent Ferrer: Gift of tongues manifests powerfully - Speaks only Spanish/Latin but Germans, French, Greeks all hear in native language - 'Christ lives! Christ reigns! Christ commands!'

St. Nicholas of Flüe: Leaves family for hermitage (with wife's permission) - Vision of Christ as pilgrim tests his resolve - Begins 19-year fast - living only on Eucharist

St. Teresa of Ávila - First vision of Christ - Christ appears wounded: 'Do not be afraid, My daughter, I am here and I will not abandon you' - 'The beauty of His hands is beyond description'

St. Teresa: Christ appears during prayer - 'From now on you shall not be concerned with human conversation, but only with angels' - 'Whoever has Me has everything'

St. Martin de Porres vision during racial persecution - Christ: 'Did I not die on the Cross for blacks as well as for whites? I am the same color in My Blood for all people'

Sacred Heart revelation continues - Christ: 'Behold this Heart which has so loved men that It has spared nothing... In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude'