The results of new archival research, compared with some epistles of Blessed Giovanni Colombini, allowed to frame the mystical experience of his cousin Caterina Colombini, which matured in the Sixties of the fourteenth century, in a situation of serious breakdown with his family, caused by patrimonial reasons. Caterina succeeded, also with the help of some friends of her cousin, to free herself from the family context and to constitute the first community of Gesuate, so-called because they observed the same way of life as the Gesuati, then in 1371 to equip this congregation with a residence purchased with her own money in the Sienese district of Vallepiatta and finally to submit it to the protection and jurisdiction of the female Benedictine monastery of Saints Abondio and Abondanzio near Siena. Thus a new female congregation was born, that also spread to other cities in Italy, but it did not turn into a religious order, while avoiding the accusation of heresy for “beguinage”.
University of Siena, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
Caterina Colombini e le origini della congregazione delle gesuate
Autori
Paolo Nardi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7.06
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Le vestigia dei gesuati
Sottotitolo del libro
L’eredità culturale del Colombini e dei suoi seguaci
Curatori
Isabella Gagliardi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
384
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-227-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-228-7
Collana
Fragmentaria. Studi di storia culturale e antropologia religiosa
ISSN della collana
2975-1217
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1225