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I mistici che la Chiesa ricorda per la preghiera, l’unione con Cristo e — quando le fonti lo attestano — grazie straordinarie.

38 mistici

La Chiesa giudica la virtù eroica, non ogni visione o locuzione. La rivelazione privata è lasciata alla Chiesa e al tuo discernimento. Le vite qui sono nostre, dal catalogo e da fonti pubbliche.

  • Beato Alexandrina of Balazar

    Anima vittima

    Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955), known as Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic, Salesian Cooperator, and victim soul who offered decades of paralysis and suffering for the conversion of sinne…

  • San Angela of Foligno

    Contemplativo

    Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Franciscan tertiary and mystic called the Mistress of Theologians, turned from a worldly life to radical penance, poverty, and charity after visions of Saint Francis and the Crucif…

  • Beato Anna Maria Taigi

    Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (née Giannetti; 29 May 1769 – 9 June 1837) was a Roman wife, mother of seven, and Secular Trinitarian whose ordinary household became a school of heroic patience, charity, and mystical union w…

  • Beato Anne Catherine Emmerich

    Stimmate

    Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) was a German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, and stigmatist whose life of hidden suffering, prayer, and love of Christ drew the poor and the learned alike. B…

  • San Bernadette Soubirous

    Visioni

    Saint Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), the humble miller's daughter of Lourdes, received eighteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle and became the messenger of the Immaculate Concept…

  • San Brigida

    Visioni

    Saint Bridget of Sweden, OSsS (c. 1304 – 23 July 1373), also known as Birgitta Birgersdotter and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Swedish Catholic mystic and the founder of the Bridgettines. Outside Sweden she was known as…

  • San Catherine Labouré

    Visioni

    Saint Catherine Labouré (1806–1876), a Daughter of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, received the apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin that gave the Church the Miraculous Medal. In lifelong humility and silence she se…

  • San Catherine of Genoa

    Contemplativo

    Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno), born 5 April 1447, was a noble Genoese mystic, wife, hospital director, and author whose conversion filled her with God's love and the resolve "No more world, no mor…

  • San Caterina da Siena

    Contemplativo

    Saint Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa), Dominican tertiary, virgin, and Doctor of the Church, was born in Siena on 25 March 1347 and died in Rome on 29 April 1380. From childhood visions and a vow of virginity…

  • Beato Concepción Cabrera de Armida

    Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (Conchita), Mexican wife, mother of nine, widow, mystic, and writer (1862–1937), lived the call to save souls through union with Christ crucified and the Trinity. She inspired the…

  • Beato Dina Bélanger

    Contemplativo

    Blessed Dina Bélanger (1897–1929), in religion Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome, was a Canadian Religious of Jesus and Mary, gifted pianist, teacher, and mystic whose life was marked by generous charity, Eucharistic lov…

  • Beato Elena Aiello

    Stimmate

    Blessed Elena Aiello (1895–1961) was an Italian religious foundress, mystic, and stigmatist who united deep love of Christ's Passion with tireless care for abandoned children and the poor. Forged by illness, Eucharist…

  • San Elizabeth of the Trinity

    Contemplativo

    Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (Élisabeth Catez, 1880–1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite mystic and spiritual writer whose short life centered on the indwelling of the Most Holy Trinity and on becoming a living "p…

  • San Faustina Kowalska

    Visioni

    Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (Helena Kowalska, 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), a Polish Sister of Our Lady of Mercy, is venerated as the Apostle and secretary of Divine Mercy. Through visions of Jesus she received…

  • San Francesco d'Assisi

    Stimmate

    Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–3 October 1226), the Poverello of Umbria, founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Poor Clares, and the Third Order of Penance, living the Gospel in absolute poverty, fraternal love, and…

  • San Gemma Galgani

    Stimmate · Anima vittima

    Saint Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), the "daughter of the Passion" of Lucca, was an Italian mystic who bore the stigmata and united her sufferings to Christ crucified. Orphaned young, refused religious life yet wholly con…

  • San Geltrude

    Contemplativo

    Saint Gertrude the Great (1256–1301/1302), Benedictine virgin and mystic of Helfta, was raised from childhood in the monastery and became one of the great contemplatives of the thirteenth century. After a decisive vis…

  • San Ildegarda de Bingen

    Contemplativo · Visioni

    Saint Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098–17 September 1179), Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church, was the Sibyl of the Rhine: mystic, visionary, composer, and teacher who wrote what she saw in the living Light of Go…

  • San Giovanni Vianney (il Curato d'Ars)

    Saint John Mary Vianney (Jean-Marie Vianney), born 8 May 1786 at Dardilly near Lyon and known as the Curé d'Ars, was a French parish priest whose more than forty years of preaching, penance, catechesis, and tireless m…

  • San Giovanni della Croce

    Contemplativo

    Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), priest, Carmelite reformer, and Doctor of the Church, was born 24 June 1542 at Fontiveros near Ávila and died 14 December 1591. With Saint Teresa of Jesus he founded…

  • Beato Julian of Norwich

    Contemplativo · Visioni

    Blessed Julian of Norwich (c. 1342/1343 – after 1416), also called Juliana, Dame Julian, or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love are the earliest surviving English-…

  • San Lidwina

    Anima vittima

    Saint Lidwina of Schiedam (1380–1433) was a Dutch mystic and virgin who, after a fall while ice skating at fifteen, offered nearly four decades of extreme bodily suffering in union with Christ's Passion. Renowned for…

  • San Luigi Grignion de Montfort

    Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673–1716) was a French priest, apostolic missionary, and master of Marian spirituality whose total consecration to Jesus through Mary shaped the Church and inspired the motto T…

  • Servo di Dio Louise Lateau

    Stimmate · Anima vittima

    Anne-Louise Lateau (1850–1883) of Bois-d'Haine, Belgium, a poor worker and Franciscan tertiary, received the stigmata in 1868; the wounds returned every Friday until her death. She was known for Friday ecstasies and c…

  • San Margherita Maria Alacoque

    Visioni

    Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), Visitation nun of Paray-le-Monial, was the humble mystic chosen by Christ to spread modern devotion to His Sacred Heart. Amid ridicule, penance, and long obedience, she receiv…

  • Beato Maria Bolognesi

    Stimmate

    Blessed Maria Bolognesi (1924–1980) was an Italian lay mystic of Bosaro near Rovigo, marked from childhood by extreme poverty, family hardship, and a total consecration to the Lord and Our Lady. She united long years…

  • Beato Maria Pierina De Micheli

    Visioni

    Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli (1890–1945), born Giuseppina in Milan, was a Daughter of the Immaculate Conception who served as superior in Italy and Argentina and became the principal promoter of modern devotion to…

  • San Mariam Baouardy

    Stimmate

    Saint Mariam Baouardy (Mary of Jesus Crucified), Melkite Discalced Carmelite of the Holy Land (1846–1878), was a humble Arab mystic marked by the Cross from childhood. Orphaned young, nearly slain for refusing marriag…

  • San Maria Maddalena

    Saint Mary Magdalene, also called Mary of Magdala, was a devoted disciple of Jesus whom he freed from seven demons. She accompanied him, ministered to him from her means, stood faithful at the Cross, witnessed his bur…

  • San Maria Maddalena de Pazzi

    Stimmate

    Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (born Caterina Lucrezia, 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607) was a Florentine Carmelite nun and mystic whose brief life burned with prayer, ecstatic union with God, and heroic suffering for the…

  • San Paolo della Croce

    Contemplativo

    Saint Paul of the Cross (Paolo Francesco Danei), born at Ovada on 3 January 1694 and dying in Rome on 18 October 1775, was a mystic priest who founded the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, the Passionists.…

  • San Pio da Pietrelcina

    Stimmate

    Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, born Francesco Forgione on 25 May 1887 in Pietrelcina to Grazio Forgione and Maria Giuseppa De Nunzio, was an Italian Capuchin priest and mystic who entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchi…

  • San Rita da Cascia

    Saint Rita of Cascia (Margherita Lotti), born at Roccaporena in Umbria and died at the Augustinian monastery of Cascia, is the humble widow and religious known as the Saint of the Impossible and advocate of desperate…

  • San Charbel Makhluf

    Contemplativo

    Saint Sharbel Makhluf, born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in 1828 in Beqaa Kafra, Lebanon, was a Maronite monk and priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order who embraced an austere eremitical life at the hermitage of Saints Pet…

  • San Teresa Benedetta della Croce (Edith Stein)

    Contemplativo

    Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin and martyr, was a brilliant Jewish-born philosopher who sought truth, found Christ in the Cross, and offered her life as a Discalced Carmelite. Baptized in 192…

  • San Teresa d'Avila

    Contemplativo

    Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Ávila), Virgin and Doctor of the Church, was born in Ávila on 28 March 1515 and died at Alba de Tormes on 4 October 1582. A Carmelite reformer, mystic, and foundress of the Discalced C…

  • San Teresa di Gesù Bambino

    Contemplativo

    Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873–1897), Carmelite of Lisieux and Doctor of the Church, lived a hidden life of spiritual childhood and total trust in God's merciful love. Through her "little way…

  • San Veronica Giuliani

    Stimmate

    Saint Veronica Giuliani was an extraordinary Capuchin Poor Clare mystic and stigmatist whose life was a perfect configuration to the Passion of Jesus Christ. Renowned for her profound humility, heroic obedience, and d…

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