EVE, Blessed. - Recluse of St. Martin of Liège, b. ca. 1205 at Liège, d. there ca. 1265. A confidante of St. Juliana of Cornillon, she shared her zeal for the institution of the feast of Corpus Christi.
Through her pious insistence this solemnity was introduced before 1251 into the Collegiate Church of St. Martin, near which her reclusory stood, and throughout her life she worked to have it extended to the whole Church. After the death of St. Juliana (1258), she wrote down in the vernacular the memoirs of her, which form the basis of the ancient Vita Julianae, where the episodes concerning E.'s relations with the Saint of Cornillon are marked by great candor and simplicity. The former archdeacon of Liège, who had become Pope Urban IV, after instituting the feast of Corpus Christi with the bull Transiturus of 1264, in the same year sent a letter to E. (reproduced in G. Barbero, Le confraternite del S.mo Sacramento prima del 1539, Vedelago [Treviso] 1944, p. 234), to communicate the great news to her; together with it he sent her a copy of the office de corpore Christi, composed in the Roman Curia and different from the one attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas.
Bibliography3 worksI. Dematteux, La première auteur wallonne: la bienheureuse Eve de St-Martin, Liège 1866; C. Lambot, Eve de St-Martin et les premiers histori
BIBL.: I. Dematteux, La première auteur wallonne: la bienheureuse Eve de St-Martin, Liège 1866; C. Lambot, Eve de St-Martin et les premiers historiens libérés de la Fête-Dice, in Studia Eucharitica DCC: anni a condito festo S.mo Corporis Christi, Antwerp 1946, pp. 10-35; F. Callaey, Documentazione eucaristica liegen: dal vescovo di Liegi Roberto di Torata al papa Urbano IV (1240-64), in Miscellanea Pio Paschini, I, Rome 1948, pp. 213-35.
Piolanti, Antonio. “Eva, beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 876–877. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eva-beata.
MLA
Piolanti, Antonio. “Eva, beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 876–877. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eva-beata.
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@incollection{ec5_eva_beata,
author = {Piolanti, Antonio},
title = {Eva, beata},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {876--877},
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/eva-beata}
}
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