38 events with tag "mysticism"
380
ID: 3820
St. Gregory of Nyssa writes mystical theology - Cappadocian Father, develops apophatic theology
ID: 3820
435
ID: 5247
Genevieve moves to Paris after parents' death - begins having visions, faces skepticism until St. Germanus confirms her sanctity
ID: 5247
1115
ID: 181
St. Bernard founds Clairvaux Abbey - will become most influential churchman in Europe
ID: 181
1141
ID: 219
Hildegard of Bingen begins recording visions - 'The Living Light' speaks through her
ID: 219
1151
ID: 221
Hildegard composes 'Ordo Virtutum' - first known morality play, cosmic battle for soul
ID: 221
1182
ID: 151
St. Christina the Astonishing dies during Mass, resurrects at her funeral, flies to church rafters - repelled by odor of sin on human bodies
ID: 151
1182
ID: 152
Christina describes journey after death - shown purgatory, hell, heaven; Christ offers choice: stay in heaven or return to suffer for souls in purgatory
ID: 152
1183
ID: 153
Christina flees to wilderness, lives in trees like bird - miraculously lactates from virgin breasts to survive nine weeks without food
ID: 153
1186
ID: 155
Christina enters bread ovens while baking, screams in agony but emerges unburned - suffering purgatorial pains for souls
ID: 155
1188
ID: 157
Christina hangs herself on gallows with thieves for days, bends limbs on torture wheels - body unharmed despite torments
ID: 157
1213
ID: 175
June 23, 1213
Blessed Marie d'Oignies dies - Beguine mystic whose Life by Jacques de Vitry first mentions Christina the Astonishing
ID: 175
1224
ID: 111
St. Clare receives miraculous Communion from angel while ill - witnessed by sisters
ID: 111
1259
ID: 4966
St. Bonaventure writes 'Journey of the Mind to God' - Franciscan mystical theology
ID: 4966
1273
ID: 15
December 6, 1273
Aquinas's mystical experience during Mass - stops writing mid-sentence in Summa, tells Reginald: 'All I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me' - shows reason leads to mystery, not comprehension
ID: 15
1281
ID: 31
St. Gertrude the Great begins receiving visions at Helfta - Christ: 'In My Heart you shall find all treasures of wisdom and knowledge'
ID: 31
1296
ID: 120
Blessed Angela of Foligno experiences 'transformations of soul' - describes 30 spiritual steps
ID: 120
1308
ID: 149
Blessed Henry Suso experiences frequent levitations - describes mystical union as 'melting into God'
ID: 149
1346
ID: 112
St. Bridget begins receiving visions - Christ dictates Fifteen Prayers on His Passion
ID: 112
1347
ID: 21
March 25, 1347
St. Catherine of Siena born as Black Death strikes - 23rd of 25 children
ID: 21
1370
ID: 22
St. Catherine's four-hour mystical death in Pisa - shown hell, purgatory, and heaven
ID: 22
1370
ID: 133
Julian of Norwich receives sixteen revelations - 'All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
ID: 133
1373
ID: 126
St. Bridget dies in Rome after establishing Brigittines - leaves 700 revelations about reform
ID: 126
1374
ID: 23
April 1, 1374
St. Catherine receives invisible stigmata in Pisa
ID: 23
1375
ID: 137
Richard Rolle dies - hermit mystic wrote 'Fire of Love' about physical heat felt in contemplation
ID: 137
1380
ID: 24
April 29, 1380
St. Catherine dies - 'Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit'
ID: 24
1425
ID: 116
St. Frances of Rome sees guardian angel constantly - founds Oblates while remaining married
ID: 116
1577
ID: 4947
St. Teresa writes 'Interior Castle' - masterpiece on prayer and mystical union with God
ID: 4947
1591
ID: 4974
December 14, 1591
Death of St. John of the Cross - Doctor of the Church, master of mystical theology
ID: 4974
1605
ID: 3449
Johann Arndt publishes 'True Christianity' - First major Protestant work emphasizing inner spiritual life over correct doctrine - Later called 'father of Pietism'
ID: 3449
1621
ID: 3471
Jakob BΓΆhme's mystical writings begin circulating - Lutheran shoemaker claims divine revelations - 'God is in all things, and all things are in God' - Influences later Pietists and Quakers
ID: 3471
1664
ID: 482
Beginning of 54 years of apparitions to Benoite Rencurel at Laus, France (ending 1718)
ID: 482
1706
ID: 472
St. Louis de Montfort prophesies apostles of latter times: 'like clouds thundering and flying through the air'
ID: 472
1740
ID: 512
Zinzendorf's 'Blood and Wounds' theology period begins - extreme focus on Christ's wounds with 17 daily meditation periods
ID: 512
1743
ID: 517
April 1743
Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual crisis begins Easter weekend in London - claims Christ appeared to him
ID: 517
1751
ID: 543
St. Paul of the Cross in ecstasy warns: 'The devil rages because his time is short'
ID: 543
1758
ID: 555
St. Gerard Majella dies - Redemptorist wonder-worker with bilocations and prophecies
ID: 555
1918
ID: 1274
September 20, 1918
St. Padre Pio receives stigmata - Wounds will bleed for 50 years - 'I need victims to save sinners'
ID: 1274
1936
ID: 1453
St. Leopold MandiΔ spends 15 hours daily in confessional - 'I am crucified in the confessional'
ID: 1453