Events Tagged: "suffering"

Troubadours develop 'joi' concept - complex emotion combining joy and suffering, ecstasy through unfulfilled desire

Christina enters bread ovens while baking, screams in agony but emerges unburned - suffering purgatorial pains for souls

Christina hangs herself on gallows with thieves for days, bends limbs on torture wheels - body unharmed despite torments

St. Bridget dies in Rome after establishing Brigittines - leaves 700 revelations about reform

Marie-Céline beatified in Bordeaux - Poor Clare who died at 19 recognized