The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was fourteenth years old, Teresa was raised by her father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother. After her death and the marriage of her eldest sister, Teresa was sent for her education to the Augustinian nuns at Avila, but owing to illness she left at the end of eighteen months, and for some years remained with her father and occasionally with other relatives, notably an uncle who made her acquainted with the Letters of St. Jerome, which determined her to adopt the religious life, not so much through any attraction towards it, as through a desire of choosing the safest course. Then Teresa fell ill with malaria. When she had a seizure, people were so sure she was dead that after she woke up four days later she learned they had dug a grave for her. Afterwards she was paralyzed for three years and was never completely well.
Catherine Howard, his fifth wife, was executed for adultery. Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr outlived him. He died in 1547, leaving the kingdom to his young son, Edward VI, under the control of several counsellors.Edward ruled only six years. After his death in 1553, his Catholic half-sister, Mary, succeeded to the English crown. She married King Philip of Spain and re-established the old religion.
History has brought fourth many influential women that have had a significant importance to both our physical and mental world. Hildegard of Bingen, a nun form Germany is an example of this important type of woman. She was able to become an influential and powerful leader in the church. Through the view on women during the twelfth century was not up to priority, Hildegard overcame this fact in a variety of unique and impressive ways. At the age of eighty-one Hildegard also known as “Saint Hildegard” and “Blessed Hildegard,” died in September during the year 1179, but not before leaving behind a reputation and list of achievements.
The Catholic Church has at least three saints named Saint Valentine, but all were martyred. One legend states that a priest Valentine in the third century in Rome married young soldiers in secret. He preformed these weddings because the ruler at the time did not want married soldiers because single soldiers made better soldiers. The priest was killed for his actions. Another legend states that Valentine may have been killed helping Christians escape Roman prisons.
According to some accounts, it was discovered that Becket had worn a hairshirt under his archbishop's garments—a sign of penance. [11] Soon after, the faithful throughout Europe began venerating Becket as a martyr, and in 1173 — barely three years after his death — he was canonised by Pope Alexander III in St. Peter's Church in Segni. On 12 July 1174, in the midst of the Revolt of 1173–1174, Henry humbled himself with public penance at Becket's tomb (see also St. Dunstan's, Canterbury), which became one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in England. Becket's assassins fled north to Knaresborough Castle, which was held by Hugh de Morville, where they remained for about a year. De Morville held property in Cumbria and this may also have provided a convenient bolt-hole, as the men prepared for a longer stay in the separate kingdom of Scotland.
In 1856 Blackwell adopted Katherine “Kitty” Barry a Scottish Orphan. In her late years she was fairly active, in 1898 she published her autobiography at the time it was not successful. In 1906 she visited the United States and took her first and last automobile ride. In 1907 Blackwell fell down a flight of stairs thus leaving her almost completely mentally and physically disabled. On May 13, 1910 Elizabeth Blackwell died in her home in Hastings, England after suffering from a stroke that left half her body paralyzed, she was buried in Kilmun, Scotland and her obituaries were published in The Lancet and the British Medical
Bio: Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along.
The family was part of the minority in the city of Skopje, Roman Catholic Christians, in an area heavily populated by Eastern Orthodox Serbians.. What we know of Agnes’ early years has been pieced together from people who knew her as a child, such as her brother Lazar, as the woman who would later become Mother Teresa was reluctant to reveal too much of her childhood. She believed that her important work was to serve God and that the details of her early days were “irrelevant”. The young woman who would later become known throughout the world as Mother Teresa, claimed in her autobiography “My Life for the Poor”, that she felt the stirrings in her heart to devote her life and belong completely to God at the age of twelve and in her own words; “I thought and prayed about it for six years. At times, I had the impression my vocation did not exist. But finally I was convinced that God called me.” On March 24, 1931 Agnes took her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a sister of Loreto.
Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed The Maid of Orléans is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old. Twenty-five years after the execution, Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920.
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film, written and directed by Peter Mullan, about four teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums (also known as 'Magdalene Laundries'), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene Asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation, or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. [2] Former Magdalene inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. [3] However, since the publication of the Irish government's McAleese Report on the Magdalene Laundries, the depiction of the abuse in the film has been questioned by the blogger Brendan O'Neill.