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Biscossi, Sibillina, Blessed

BISCOSSI, SIBILLINA, BEATA

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Also known as: Blessed Sibyllina Biscossi, Sibyllina Biscossi

BISCOSSI, Sibillina, Blessed. - Dominican mystic, b. in Pavia around 1287, d. there on 19 March 1367. At the age of twelve she lost her sight and, taken in and instructed by Dominican Tertiaries, she embraced the religious life. Having asked for but not obtained the miracle of a cure, in order to conform herself to the suffering Christ, at the age of fifteen she shut herself in a cell built near the church of the Friars Preachers, where she remained for the rest of her life amid penances and visions. Her cult was confirmed on 17 Aug. 1854 by Pius IX; her feast falls on 23 March. Her body is venerated in the cathedral of Pavia.

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BIBL.: Acta SS., Martii, III, Paris 1865, p. 67 ff.; Anonymous in Année Dominicaine, 2 (1886), p. 475 ff.; I. Taurisano, Catal. hagiogr. Ord. Praed., 2nd ed., Rome 1918, p. 31, with bibliography.

Angelo Walz

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1674.

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Walz, Angelo. “Biscossi, sibillina, beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1674. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/biscossi-sibillina-beata.

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Walz, Angelo. “Biscossi, sibillina, beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1674. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/biscossi-sibillina-beata.

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  author    = {Walz, Angelo},
  title     = {Biscossi, sibillina, beata},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1674},
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  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/biscossi-sibillina-beata}
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