BEATRICE OF NAZARETH, Blessed. - Cistercian nun, b. at Tirlemont ca. 1200, d. at Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, near Lier (Brabant) on 28 Aug. 1268. She embraced the religious life at the age of 17 in the monastery of Bloemendael, founded by her father, whom she then followed in the further foundations of Maagdendael and of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth (1236), where she was prioress.
Of refined culture and privileged with mystical graces, she was a forerunner of the reparative devotion to the Sacred Heart. Her characteristic trait, in fact, is a great devotion to the Passion of the Lord, which she always kept present to her mind and which made her penetrate into the Heart of the Master, who drew her to himself, enclosed her in his wound, and there she felt the spiritual warnings, the promises, the desires of the Divine Repairer.
There remains to us from her: Von seven Manieren van Minne (Louvain 1926), in which she describes the different degrees of a soul's ascent toward the love of mystical union with God, which recalls the seven mansions of the soul of St. Teresa. B. also had the habit of writing down her spiritual experiences, interspersing them with small treatises on ascetic and mystical subjects, which formed, after her death, a kind of autobiography that served as the basis for W. von Afflighem, abbot of St-Trond, for a Life written in Latin and published with various omissions and without a prologue by C. Henriquez under the title: Quinque prudentes virgines (Antwerp 1700).
Bibliography3 worksL. Reijpene and J. van Mierlo, Een nieuwe schrijfster uit de eerste helft der XIII eeuw, in Dietsche Warande en Belfort, 1925, pp. 352-77; i
BIBL.: L. Reijpene and J. van Mierlo, Een nieuwe schrijfster uit de eerste helft der XIII eeuw, in Dietsche Warande en Belfort, 1925, pp. 352-77; id., Beatrijs van Nazareth Seven Manieren van Minne, Louvain 1926, with an ample introduction; J. van Mierlo, s. v. in DSp. I, coll. 1310-14.
Testore, Celestino. “Beatrice di Nazareth, beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1112. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/beatrice-di-nazareth-beata.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Beatrice di Nazareth, beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1112. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/beatrice-di-nazareth-beata.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_beatrice_di_nazareth_beata,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Beatrice di Nazareth, beata},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1112},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/beatrice-di-nazareth-beata}
}
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