Teresa Helena Higginson (27 May 1844 – 15 February 1905) was a British Roman Catholic mystic.
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| Born | 27 May 1844 Holywell, Flintshire, England |
| Died | 15 February 1905 (aged 60) Chudleigh, Devon, England |
Teresa Higginson | |
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| Venerated in | Palmarian Catholic Church[1] |
| Canonized | 17 September 1978[1], Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, El Palmar de Troya, Spain by Gregory XVII[1] |
Life
editHigginson was born in Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom in 1844 where her parents were staying whilst on pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Winefride.[2] Her father Robert Francis Higginson was a Catholic and his wife was a convert. Higginson went to a convent school in Nottingham, and became a schoolteacher at Bootle.[3]
During her life Higginson's hands and feet bled in a way known as stigmata,[2] she went into prayer trances that lasted days, and she "violently re-enacted" the scenes in the Stations of the Cross.[4]
Higginson died in Chudleigh and was declared a Servant of God in 1937.[5] She was discussed as a possible candidate for beatification in 1928.[6] Many letters written by Higginson are in the archives at St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, with duplicates at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool.[7]
Canonisation
editIn the Palmarian Catholic Church, based in El Palmar de Troya, Andalusia, Spain, Teresa Higginson is celebrated as a canonised saint, having been canonised by the Palmarian Holy See on 17 September 1978 in the Fourteenth Papal Document of Pope Gregory XVII.[1] Declaring “besides her well known virtues, Heaven favoured her with marvellous ecstasies, visions, stigmatizations, bilocation and other mystical graces. Many and important are her Messages and prophecies, among which there stand out the devotions to the Most Precious Blood, and to the Sacred Head of Jesus. She prophesied as well over the events of the Last Times.”[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "The Pontifical Documents of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII" (PDF). Magnus Lundberg. Retrieved on 9 November 2023.
- ^ a b Teresa Helena Higginson, Amazon, Retrieved 24 November 2015
- ^ Mary Heimann, Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Clarendon Press 1995): 150. ISBN 9780198205975
- ^ Mary Heimann, Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Clarendon Press 1995): 43. ISBN 9780198205975
- ^ Life story, TeresaHigginson.com, Retrieved 24 November 2015
- ^ "Woman of Prayer-Trance Likely to be Made Saint" Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (21 November 1928): 10. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool, Archives.
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