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词条 Columba of Rieti
释义

  1. Life

      Early life    Eating disorder    Religious career  

  2. Notes and references

  3. See also

  4. External links

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|titles=Dominican Sister, virgin and mystic
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Columba of Rieti, T.O.S.D., ({{IPA-it|ˈrjeːti|lang|It-Rieti.ogg}}; 2 February 1467 – 20 May 1501) was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and fantastic miracles were attributed to her. She was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1625.

Life

Early life

Columba was born Angelella Guardagnoli, the daughter of a poor family in the Umbrian city of Rieti. Legend states that when she was born, angels gathered around her house, singing, and that during her baptism, a dove flew down to the font. From then on, no one referred to her as Angelella, but as Columba (dove).{{sfn|Jones}} As a small girl, Columba learned to spin and sew repairing the clothes of the local Dominican friars. She was educated by Dominican nuns. As a teenager, she prayed to discern her vocation in life and received a vision of Christ on a throne surrounded by saints. She took this as a sign to dedicate herself to God, and so she made a private vow of chastity, and spent her time in prayer. When it was revealed that her parents had arranged a marriage for her, she cut off her hair and sent it to her suitor as a way of letting him know where her real interest lay.{{sfn|Jones}}

Eating disorder

Columba suffered from an eating disorder, a form of religiously-motivated self-starvation called anorexia mirabilis.[1] Anorexia mirabilis was well known in Columba's time, when it was not seen as a medical emergency or mental illness as it would be today, instead revered as a symbol of one's piety. Ultimately, the disease caused her death in 1501, at the age of 34.[2] Additionally, Columba was known to engage in acts designed to cause her physical pain, such as at the wearing of a hairshirt and sleeping on thorns.[3] It's possible that she may have been influenced by Catherine of Siena, an earlier Italian Dominican saint, who suffered from anorexia mirabilis; she refused to eat to the point of starvation and passed away at the age of 33.[4][5] Also, like Catherine, Columba cut her hair short to avoid marriage.[6]

Religious career

Columba became a Dominican tertiary at age 19. She was reputedly given to ecstasies, during one of which her spirit toured the Holy Land. She was much sought after as a spiritual counselor. It is said that citizens from the city of Narni tried to kidnap her so she could be their miracle worker, but she escaped. The same townsfolk were later to fight to retain their own townswoman and mystic, the Blessed Lucy.{{sfn|Jones}}{{sfn|Ashley}}

Upon an interior prompting that she should leave Rieti, Columba wandered away, having no concept of where she was going. Along the way she was arrested in Foligno as a vagrant. The bishop there ordered her to go to Perugia and to found a Third Order convent, which she did, but only against the strong objections of the citizens of Foligno and Rieti who wanted her for their own towns.{{sfn|Ashley}} She worked with the poor extensively in Perugia, so much so that her sanctity reportedly incensed Lucrezia Borgia for years. At one point Borgia had even issued a complaint accusing Columba of practicing magic. On the other hand, Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia's father, held Columba in high regard. He consulted her and received a severe admonition to repent from her.{{sfn|McNamara|2010}}

Columba spent eleven years as prioress in Perugia, dying on 2 May 1501, at the age of 34.{{sfn|Ashley}} Legend says that at the moment of her death, her friend and fellow Dominican tertiary, the Blessed Osanna of Mantua, saw Columba's soul as a "radiance rising to heaven." The whole city turned out for her funeral, which was paid for by the city fathers.{{sfn|Jones}}{{sfn|McNamara|2010}}

She was beatified on 25 February 1625 by Pope Urban VIII, and her feast day is celebrated within the Dominican Order on the anniversary of her death.

Notes and references

References
1. ^{{Cite journal|last=Weinberg|first=Cybelle|last2=Cordás|first2=Táki Athanássios|last3=Albornoz Munoz|first3=Patricia|date=April 2005|title=Saint Rose of Lima: an anorexic saint in Latin America?|url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-81082005000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en|journal=Revista de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul|volume=27|issue=1|pages=51–56|doi=10.1590/S0101-81082005000100006|issn=0101-8108}}
2. ^{{Cite book|title=Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women|last=Walker Bynum|first=Catherine|publisher=University of California Press|year=1988|isbn=0520908783|location=|pages=146–148}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://catholicsaints.info/miniature-lives-of-the-saints-blessed-columba-of-rieti/|title=Miniature Lives of the Saints – Blessed Columba of Rieti|date=2015-02-24|work=CatholicSaints.Info|access-date=2018-10-31}}
4. ^Farmer, David Hugh (1997). The Oxford dictionary of saints (4. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. p. 93. {{ISBN|0-19-280058-2}}.
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.kateriirondequoit.org/resources/saints-alive/caedmon-cyril-tejedor/bl-columba-of-rieti/|title=Bl. Columba of Rieti {{!}} Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Parish - Irondequoit, NY|website=www.kateriirondequoit.org|access-date=2018-10-31}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318672837|title=Saint of the day : lives, lessons & feasts|date=2009|publisher=St. Anthony Messenger Press|others=Foley, Leonard, 1913-1994., McCloskey, Patrick.|isbn=9780867168877|edition= 6th rev.|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|oclc=318672837}}
Works cited
{{Refbegin}}
  • {{Citation | last=Ashley | first=Benedict M | title=Columba of Rieti | work=Blessed Osanna d'Andreasi and Other Renaissance Italian Dominican Women Mystics | url=http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/osanna.htm | accessdate=June 18, 2010 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320094220/http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/osanna.htm | archivedate=March 20, 2008 }}
  • {{Citation | last=Jones | first=Terry | title=Columba of Rieti | work=Patron Saints Index | url=http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-columba-of-rieti/ | accessdate=June 18, 2010}}
  • {{Citation | last=McNamara | first=Robert F | title=Bl. Columba of Rieti | work=Saints Alive | publisher=St. Thomas the Apostle Church | date=20 February 2007 | url=http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id606.htm | accessdate=June 18, 2010 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210100849/http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id606.htm | archivedate=10 December 2007 }}
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See also

  • Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis
  • Blessed Osanna of Mantua

External links

  • {{CathEncy|wstitle=Blessed Colomba of Rieti}}
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