ANGELINA da MARSCIANO, Blessed. - Franciscan tertiary, born in the castle of Montegione, near Orvieto, ca. 1377, daughter of Giacomo, Count of Marsciano, and Anna of the Counts of Corbara; died in Foligno on 14 July 1435. In 1393 she married Giovanni, Count of Civitella d'Abruzzo, with whom she lived in continence. Widowed in 1395, she devoted herself to an austere life of piety, becoming a Franciscan tertiary and donating much of her wealth. Accused of sorcery by King Ladislaus of Naples, of whom she was a vassal, she cleared herself in his presence; yet she was later banished from the kingdom. In the company of other young women drawn by her example, she made a pilgrimage to Assisi for the 1395 Jubilee of the Portiuncula. From there she went to Foligno, where in 1397 she founded a monastery of enclosed Franciscan tertiaries dedicated to St Anne. So many women from Umbria and other Italian regions joined her that additional houses were established in Foligno, Assisi (S. Quirico), Florence (S. Onofrio), Viterbo (S. Agnese), and eleven other places during her lifetime; she governed them all as Minister General. She was buried in the church of S. Francesco in Foligno. Pope Leo XII confirmed her cult in 1825. She is commemorated on 15 July.
ANGELINE. - Under this name are commonly designated the secular Ursulines who live according to the primitive rule given by St Angela Merici to the Company of St Ursula (v.). The distinctive character of this rule is that it imposes neither common life nor habit nor special works upon the sisters. Apart from family and professional duties, they place themselves at the disposal of superiors for any good work. The Company is diocesan in its governance, but the rule is of pontifical right. In Italy alone there are about 16,000 Angelines, distributed in 46 dioceses.
ANGELO – The Virgin Enthroned between Four Angels – 6th-century mosaic in S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna.