HIGGINSON, TERESA HELENA. - Mystic, born in 1844 to Catholic parents. In 1854 she entered a convent in Nottingham, where she remained for 10 years and made her first Communion at Easter in 1857. From earliest childhood she gave proof of exceptional piety, yearning for suffering and penance. For many years she taught poor children in the Catholic schools at Bootle, Wigan and Sabden in Lancashire, the seat of her ancestors, and finally at Chudleigh in Devonshire, where she died on 15 February 1906.
Around 1926 the publication of several Lives of H. aroused intense interest among English-speaking Catholics. They also contain letters written by H. in obedience to her spiritual director, in which she relates that she received extraordinary favors, and miracles such as bilocation and living for many years without eating, miraculous Communions and the stigmata. She believed herself called to spread the new devotion to the sacred Head of Our Lord, seat of Divine Wisdom, in reparation for the sins of intellectual pride.
BibliographyC. Kerr, T. H. H.: her complete life, London 1927.
BIBL.: C. Kerr, T. H. H.: her complete life, London 1927.
Rope, Enrico. “Higginson, teresa helena.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1434. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/higginson-teresa-helena.
MLA
Rope, Enrico. “Higginson, teresa helena.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1434. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/higginson-teresa-helena.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_higginson_teresa_helena,
author = {Rope, Enrico},
title = {Higginson, teresa helena},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1434},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/higginson-teresa-helena}
}
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