Tau PublishingAngela of Foligno
Mystic and Franciscan penitent, c. 1248–1309
Angela of Foligno was a married woman of Foligno, a town about ten miles from Assisi, who by her own account lived carelessly of God until a conversion in middle life. After the deaths of her husband and children she gave away her goods and was received into the Franciscan Third Order.
Her account of her inner journey, dictated to a Franciscan friar, became one of the classics of Christian mysticism, and she has long been called the “Teacher of Theologians.” Pope Francis enrolled her among the saints in 2013.
