Marie of Oignies
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Marie of Oignies (Maria Ogniacensis, born Nivelles, now Belgium, 1177, died 1213) was a Beguine saint, known from the Life written by James of Vitry, for Fulk of Toulouse.[1]
Blessed Marie of Oignies | |
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Born | 1177 Nivelles, Belgium |
Died | June 23, 1213 (aged 35ā36) Oignies, Belgium |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Major shrine | church of Saint Nicholas at Nivelles, Belgium |
Feast | June 23 |
Attributes | protected from rain by the Virgin Mary sheltering her with her mantle |
Patronage | against fever, women in labour |
Marie "did not live a cloistered life following an approved rule, but rather adopted a free form of devout life marked by strenuous asceticism and manual labour, as well as mystical gifts of a new kind."[2] Marie is purported to have received many visions from God, experienced ecstasy and wept uncontrollably when meditating on the Passion of Christ. She did not eat meat, dressed in white clothes, and mortified her flesh in acts of penance.[3]
Her life was recorded as early as 1215 by her confessor, Jacques de Vitry. His account helped gain papal approval for the Beguines.[4]