Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Saints & hagiography Venerables

Domenica da Paradiso, Venerable

DOMENICA DA PARADISO, VENERABILE

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Also known as: Italian: Suor Domenica da Paradiso

DOMENICA da PARADISO, venerabile. - Dominican mystic, b. 8 Sept. 1473 at Paradiso (whence the nickname) on the outskirts of Florence, d. at Florence on 5 Jan. 1553. From her earliest years she enjoyed rare charisms: ecstasies, miracles, prophecies, reading of hearts, visions. She also had the gift of the stigmata. She was also very active. Her name is particularly linked to the Florentine monastery of S. Croce (called "della Crocetta"), which she founded (1511) and endowed. She entered it with her disciples in Apr. 1513 and was buried in its little church. Even today she makes her powerful intercession felt.

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BIBL.: I. Del Nente, Vita e costumi ed intelligenze spirituali della ven. m. sr. D. da P..., Venice 1675; 2nd ed., Florence 1743; B.-M. Borghigiani, Intera narrazione della vita, costumi e intelligenze spirituali della ven. sposa di Gesù, suor D. da P..., Florence 1719, 1802; Année dominicaine, new ed., I, Lyon (1808), pp. 313-45.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 1819.

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Redigonda, Abele. “Domenica da Paradiso, venerabile.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1819. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/domenica-da-paradiso-venerabile.

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Redigonda, Abele. “Domenica da Paradiso, venerabile.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1819. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/domenica-da-paradiso-venerabile.

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  author    = {Redigonda, Abele},
  title     = {Domenica da Paradiso, venerabile},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/domenica-da-paradiso-venerabile}
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