BRIDGET OF JESUS. - In the world Morello, foundress of the Ursulines of Piacenza, b. at Pagana, near Rapallo, on 17 June 1610, d. on 3 Sept. 1679. Married to Matteo Zingani, she moved to live at Tabiano (Reggio Emilia); after the death of her husband, on 11 Nov. 1637, she made a vow of perpetual chastity and in 1645-49 founded at Piacenza a house of Ursulines, in imitation of the one that had arisen the previous year at Parma, for the education of girls. She was favored with extraordinary charisms; her precious teachings on the spiritual life were collected in the Documenti lasciati alle sue figliuole spirituali dalla madre B. di Gesù fondatrice del collegio di S. Orsola in Piacenza (Turin 1876). The cause has not yet been officially introduced, but on 14 Nov. 1934 the decree approving her writings was issued.

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BIBL.: Vita della madre B. di G., written by her confessor p. Morandi (ms. in the archive of the Ursulines at Piacenza); I. Biancheli, Vita della madre B. di G., fondatrice delle Dame Orsoline di Piacenza, Piacenza 1925; ed. without notes, Isola del Liri 1935.

Felice da Mareto

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Bridget of Jesus

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