Marina de Escobar
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Venerable
Marina de Escobar (8 February 1554 – 9 June 1633) was a Spanish nun, and foundress of a modified branch of the Brigittine Order. She was born and died in Valladolid
, Spain
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; her mother was Margaret Montana, daughter of the Emperor Charles V's physician.
Until her forty-fifth year her attention was given mainly to her own perfection, then she devoted herself more to others. At fifty her continual bodily afflictions became so severe that she was confined to her bed for the remainder of her life. Her spiritual guide was Luis de Ponte.
She established a branch of the Order of the Holy Saviour or Brigittines but with the rules greatly modified. By divine command, as she believed, she wrote her revelations, and when too feeble she dictated them. Luis de Ponte arranged them and left them for publication after her death. In his preface he declares his belief in their genuineness.
s and the Blessed Virgin Mary's prerogatives; V gives means to help souls in purgatory
and to save souls on earth; and VI reveals her perfection as shown under terrible sufferings.
The style of the work is free and flowing and she speaks with simplicity and naïve frankness. The visions are picturesque, and pleasing or alarming according to their subject, but the descriptions are mere outlines, leaving much to the imagination, and never going into details. Their variety is greatincluding: Daily communion and Satan's objection to it; mystic espousals; how the bodies of saints can appear in visions; internal stigmata; some saints with whom modern hagiographers have dealt harshly, as St. Christopher.
Venerable
The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. It is also the common English-language translation of a number of Buddhist titles.-Roman Catholic:...
Marina de Escobar (8 February 1554 – 9 June 1633) was a Spanish nun, and foundress of a modified branch of the Brigittine Order. She was born and died in Valladolid
Valladolid
Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
, Spain
Spain
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Life
Her father, Iago de Escobar, was professor of civil and canon law and for a time governor of OsunaOsuna
Osuna is a town and municipality in the province of Seville, southern Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. , it has a population of c...
; her mother was Margaret Montana, daughter of the Emperor Charles V's physician.
Until her forty-fifth year her attention was given mainly to her own perfection, then she devoted herself more to others. At fifty her continual bodily afflictions became so severe that she was confined to her bed for the remainder of her life. Her spiritual guide was Luis de Ponte.
She established a branch of the Order of the Holy Saviour or Brigittines but with the rules greatly modified. By divine command, as she believed, she wrote her revelations, and when too feeble she dictated them. Luis de Ponte arranged them and left them for publication after her death. In his preface he declares his belief in their genuineness.
Works
The writings were published in one large volume and are divided into six books containing Luis de Ponte's remarks and her own, interspersed between the visions themselves. Book I treats of the means by which God had led her; II contains revelations about the mysteries of redemption; III about God and the Blessed Trinity; IV about guardian angelGuardian angel
A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...
s and the Blessed Virgin Mary's prerogatives; V gives means to help souls in purgatory
Purgatory
Purgatory is the condition or process of purification or temporary punishment in which, it is believed, the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven...
and to save souls on earth; and VI reveals her perfection as shown under terrible sufferings.
The style of the work is free and flowing and she speaks with simplicity and naïve frankness. The visions are picturesque, and pleasing or alarming according to their subject, but the descriptions are mere outlines, leaving much to the imagination, and never going into details. Their variety is greatincluding: Daily communion and Satan's objection to it; mystic espousals; how the bodies of saints can appear in visions; internal stigmata; some saints with whom modern hagiographers have dealt harshly, as St. Christopher.