Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Saints & hagiography Blessed

Elizabeth of Reute, Blessed

ELISABETTA DI REUTE, BEATA

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Also known as: German: Elisabeth von Reute; Betta the Good, Elizabeth Bona; Italian: Betta la buona, Elisabetta Bona

ELIZABETH OF REUTE, Blessed. - Mystic, commonly called E. Bona, and "Betta the good," b. at Waldsee (Württemberg) on 25 Nov. 1386, d. at Reute near Waldsee on 25 Nov. 1420. At the age of 17 (1403), she entered the monastery of the Franciscan Tertiaries of Reute, where she remained until death.

There she devoted herself to meditation on the Passion of Christ, whose sufferings inspired her to penances and fasts; she was filled with mystical charisms: ecstasies, visions, stigmata. Her tomb was always greatly venerated; her cult confirmed by Clement XIII in 1766. Feast on 25 Nov.

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BIBL.: The principal source is the biography that E.'s spiritual director Corrado Küpelin wrote of her in 1421: a first edition was prepared at Waldsee in 1879; a second in 1881-82. Cl. Waddine, Annales, nos. 1420, no. 4; G. Moroni, Divina, di rendra storico-scrisianti, XXI, pp. 351-52; I. Beschin - I. Palazzolo, Martyr, Francisc., Rome 1939, p. 452.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 248–249.

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Odoardi, Giovanni. “Elisabetta di Reute, beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 248–249. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/elisabetta-di-reute-beata.

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Odoardi, Giovanni. “Elisabetta di Reute, beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 248–249. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/elisabetta-di-reute-beata.

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  author    = {Odoardi, Giovanni},
  title     = {Elisabetta di Reute, beata},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {248--249},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/elisabetta-di-reute-beata}
}

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