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 |
Life edit
Higginson was born in Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom in 1844 where her parents were staying whilst on pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Winefride.[1] 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.[2]
During her life Higginson's hands and feet bled in a way known as stigmata,[1] she went into prayer trances that lasted days, and she "violently re-enacted" the scenes in the Stations of the Cross.[3]
Higginson died in Chudleigh and was declared a Servant of God in 1937.[4] She was discussed as a possible candidate for beatification in 1928.[5] 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.[6]
References edit
- ^ 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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