Teresa Helena Higginson
| Teresa Helena Higginson | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
27 May 1844 Holywell |
| Died |
15 March 1905 Chudleigh |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | miracles |
Teresa Helena Higginson (27 May 1844 – 15 March 1905) was a British Roman Catholic mystic.
Life
Higginson was born in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, in 1844.[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.[4]
Legacy
Higginson was discussed as a possible candidate for canonization 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
- 1 2 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.