The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Osanna d'Andreasi, Mystic and Spiritual Adviser (born 17 January 1449) Born in Carbonara di Po, near Mantua, on 17 January 1449,...

Teresa of Ávila (feast day, 15 October) Born on 28 March 1515, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada would become one of the most well-kno...

Margery Kempe (in Rome, 7 October 1414) In the account of her life that she says was completed in 1436, the English mystic and pilgrim ...

Beatrice of Nazareth (feast day, 29 July) The woman who became known as Beatrice of Nazareth was born about the year 1200 in Tienen, a ...

Birgitta of Sweden (died 23 July 1373) The life of Birgitta Birgersdotter changed radically in 1344. Before that date, she lived a piou...

Margareta Ebner (died 20 June 1351) Born in southeastern Germany (Swabia) in 1291, Margareta Ebner was a member of an aristocratic fam...

Catherine of Genoa (canonized 16 June 1737) St. Catherine of Genoa, eighteenth-century painting by Giovanni Agostino Ratti Cateri...

Mechthild of Magdeburg (Asteroid 873 Mechthild discovered 21 May 1917) Because we do not know exactly when the Beguine mystic Mechthild...

Julian of Norwich (receives her "revelations," 13 May 1373) We know very little about Julian of Norwich--her birth date, for e...

Marie of Oignies (1 May 1240) First, a word about why Marie of Oignies is the topic of today's post. Most of what we know about thi...

Margaret of Cortona (died 22 February 1297)                            Saint Margaret of Cortona,                detail from a l...