Also known as:
Italian: Suor Maria Arcangela Biondini
BIONDINI, MARIA ARCANGELA. - Mystical writer, b. June 24, 1641 to Venetian parents in Corfu, where her father was governor, d. at Arco (Trentino) on Nov. 23, 1712. She entered (1655) the Servite nuns of Burano and there was mistress of novices and abbess. She founded (1689) at Arco a monastery of cloistered Servites of the primitive observance, writing its constitutions, which received apostolic approval. During the French invasion (1702-1703) the nuns were exiled and the convent half-destroyed; she later received help from Leopold and Joseph I. After an intense spiritual life with extraordinary manifestations, as she was dying she repeated to Fr. Angelo Zanetti, later her biographer, three times: "annihilation."
She wrote much in prose and in verse, almost all unpublished. The majority of her manuscripts are preserved at Arco. We recall: Autobiografia; Lumi spirituali; Compendio del divino Amore; Dottrina di Cristo; Sermoni e discorsi vari; Trattato sopra la vera orazione di quiete e la falsa; Trattato sopra la quiete; Sopra i libri mistici.
The following have been printed, but are hard to find: Convitto al peccatore; Piccolo raggio di luce celeste; Cento lettere spirituali.
Bibliography4 worksB. Artuso, s. v. in DSp. I, coll. 1719-20; id., L'orazione mistica nella vita e nella dottrina della M. M. Arc. B., Rome 1938; id., La M. M.
BIBL.: B. Artuso, s. v. in DSp. I, coll. 1719-20; id., L'orazione mistica nella vita e nella dottrina della M. M. Arc. B., Rome 1938; id., La M. M. Arc. B., Vicenza 1939; id., La M. M. Arc. B. e il movimento quietista del suo tempo, in La Scuola Cattolica, 67 (1939), pp. 451-80.
Tinello, Francesco. “Biondini, maria arcangela.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1661. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/biondini-maria-arcangela.
MLA
Tinello, Francesco. “Biondini, maria arcangela.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1661. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/biondini-maria-arcangela.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_biondini_maria_arcangela,
author = {Tinello, Francesco},
title = {Biondini, maria arcangela},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1661},
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/biondini-maria-arcangela}
}
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