Bienheureuse Stéphanie
Quinzani
Tertiaire
dominicaine (+ 1530)
tertiaire dominicaine. voir Grandes figures du laïcat dominicain, page 59 et Bienheureuse Stéphanie Quinzani, Vierge du Tiers-Ordre de Saint-Dominique, (1457-1530)
À Soncino en Lombardie, l'an 1530, la bienheureuse Stephanie Quinzani, vierge,
sœur du Tiers Ordre de saint Dominique, qui se consacra assidûment à la
contemplation de la passion du Seigneur, ainsi qu'à la formation chrétienne des
jeunes filles.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/9923/Bienheureuse-St%C3%A9phanie-Quinzani.html
Bse Stéphanie Quinzani
Vierge du Tiers-Ordre de
Saint-Dominique
(1457-1530)
Cette fille de saint
Dominique naquit le 5 février 1457, à Orzinovi, petit village situé près de
Brescia, en Italie. Son père, Lorenzo Quinzani alla bientôt s’établir à Soncino
pour se mettre sous la conduite du dominicain Mathieu Carreri, célèbre maître
de la vie intérieure. Celui-ci avait remarqué la petite Stéphanie et prédit à
la jeune enfant qu’elle serait son héritière. L’enfant ne comprit rien à ces
paroles, mais, quelques années plus tard, quand le bienheureux Matthieu mourut,
la Sainte se sentit frappée au coeur d’une blessure très douloureuse. Au même
instant, le défunt lui apparut et lui apprit que cette blessure était
l’héritage qu’il lui avait promis.
La souffrance devait être
le partage de la bienheureuse Stéphanie; elle était destinée par Dieu à prendre
rang parmi ces âmes privilégiées que Sa divine sagesse conduit hors des voies
communes et élève par des moyens extraordinaires jusqu’aux plus hauts sommets
de la vie mystique.
Chez la bienheureuse, la
grâce prévint la nature. A l’âge de sept ans, elle fit voeu de pauvreté, de
virginité et d’obéissance. Notre-Seigneur voulut aussitôt lui montrer combien
sa générosité Lui avait été agréable. Il lui apparut accompagné de Sa Très
Sainte Mère, et de plusieurs autres Saints et lui donna le titre d’épouse et
comme gage de cette alliance, lui remit un anneau précieux. Vers l’âge de dix à
onze ans, elle sentit un vif attrait pour la souffrance. Elle comprit qu’elle
devait suivre le Christ, son Époux, sur le chemin du Calvaire. Aussi se
mit-elle à pratiquer une rigoureuse mortification. Les épreuves ne lui furent
pas épargnées et le démon lui suscita de terribles tentations contre la sainte
vertu. Pour en triompher, la jeune fille eut recours à un remède énergique:
elle se précipita avec un courage intrépide dans un amas d’épines et s’y roula
jusqu’à ce que la douleur eût calmé les efforts de la tentation.
A l’âge de quinze ans, un
Vendredi-Saint, alors qu’elle méditait avec larmes sur les souffrances de son
Sauveur, elle reçut de Jésus-Christ l’impression des sacrés stigmates et Il lui
déclara que désormais elle aurait part à toutes Ses douleurs et que dans chacun
de ses membres elle porterait une partie de ce que Lui-même avait souffert. A
partir de ce moment, chaque semaine, le vendredi, elle semblait reproduire dans
son corps et dans son âme les mystères de la sanglante Passion. On la voyait
dans une sorte d’agonie pendant laquelle il lui sortait de tous les pores une
sueur mêlée de sang. Puis on eût dit qu’on la déchirait de coups de fouet.
Enfin, sa tête portait comme l’empreinte du couronnement d’épines. A ces
souffrances corporelles venaient s’ajouter d’indicibles angoisses morales.
Pendant quarante ans, la Bienheureuse dut passer à travers des ténèbres, des
sécheresses, des impuissances et des délaissements terribles. Et ce martyre de
l’âme était si effroyable qu’elle eût succombé sous la rigueur des épreuves, si
des faveurs extraordinaires n’étaient venues la soutenir.
Selon son plus grand
désir et la promesse qu’elle avait faite en son jeune âge, elle revêtit l’habit
du Tiers-Ordre de Saint-Dominique. Elle établit un monastère à Soncino et
entreprit de bâtir un couvent sous le vocable de saint Paul. Dieu lui vint en
aide, et, dès l’année 1519, une trentaine de jeunes filles des plus nobles
familles y travaillaient sous sa direction à acquérir la perfection religieuse.
Elle mourut le 2 janvier
1530 à l’âge de soixante-treize ans en prononçant les paroles du Divin Crucifié
dont elle avait été la fidèle imitatrice: "Seigneur, je remets mon âme
entre Vos mains."
Causeries du dimanche
SOURCE : http://magnificat.ca/cal/fr/saints/bse_stephanie_quinzani.html
Also
known as
Stefana Quinzani
Stephanie de Quinzanis
16
January on some calendars
Profile
Born to pious parents;
her father became
a Dominican tertiary while
Stephana was very young. She was taught her catechism by
the stigmatic Blessed Matthew
Carrieri who lived at the nearby Dominican convent;
though she was too small to understand, he told her that she was to be his
spiritual heiress. She began receiving visions of Dominican saints from
age seven, at which point she made personal vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience.
Carrieri died when
Stephana was 14; soon after he appeared to her in a vision, and she received
the stigmata.
Dominican tertiary at Soncino, Italy at
age 15. Devoted to caring for the poor and sick.
She founded a community of Third Order sisters in Soncino,
and served as its first abbess.
Her counsel was sought by many including Saint Angela
Merici, Blessed Augustine
of Biella, and Blessed Osanna
of Mantua.
Though she had no
formal theological training,
she could discuss mystical theology at
the most profound level. She could read the hearts and minds of the people
around her, and had the gift of prophesy and healing.
She lived in a nearly continuous fast, and inflicted severe penances on
herself. Stephana accurately predicted the date of her own death.
Born
2
January 1530 of
at Soncino, Italy of
natural causes
14
December 1740 by Pope Benedict
XIV (cultus
confirmed)
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God of all consolation,
you made Blessed Stephana
a sharer in the passion of Christ. With the help of her prayers and by
following her example may we be conformed to the image of your Son, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. – Prayer from
the General Calendar of the Order
of Preachers
O God, who, after a
wonderful manner, didst cause Blessed Stephana, Thy Virgin, burning with the
love of her crucified Lord, to become a partaker of His Passion, grant we
beseech Thee, that we, by her prayers and example, may likewise deserve to be
made conformable to the image of Thy Son: Who lives and reigns
with Thee world without end. Amen. – Office Book for Dominican Sisters
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Stephana de
Quinzanis“. CatholicSaints.Info. 9 January 2022. Web. 28 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-stephana-de-quinzanis/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-stephana-de-quinzanis/
Blessed Stephana de
Quinzanis, OP V (AC)
(also known as Stephanie)
Born near Brescia, Italy,
in 1457; died January 2, 1530; cultus confirmed in 1740 by Pope Benedict XIV.
It was Blessed
Stephanie's good fortune always to live with holy people and to have the
edifying example of many holy friends. She was born of pious parents in a
little village in northern Italy. While she was still very small, her father
became a Dominican Tertiary. On visits with him to the Dominican convent, she
met the holy stigmatic, Blessed Matthew Carrieri, whose influence was to last
throughout her long life. He taught her the catechism and much of his own
spirit of sanctity. In fact, he told her that one day she was to be his
spiritual heiress. She did not understand this for many years.
Early trained to
sanctity, Stephanie responded with the love of a true saint. She fasted and did
penance from her earliest years. The visions that were to sweeten her mystical
life began when she was seven, and at that time she made the vows of poverty,
chastity, and obedience. She was favored with a beautiful visitation from Our
Lord and several of the Dominican saints, and was given a splendid ring--as a
token of her espousal to Christ. From then on, her heart and mind were centered
on God, and no earthly attraction had power to distract her.
When Stephanie was 14,
Blessed Matthew Carrieri died, and, shortly thereafter, appeared to her.
Wounded with a terrible pain, the girl realized that she had received the
sacred stigmata. This was the legacy the Blessed Matthew had promised her. Now
she intensified her penances, and she meditated almost ceaselessly on the
Passion. In addition to her physical endurance of the Passion, she had to
undergo a spiritual desolation and dryness. This aridity lasted forty years.
At age 15, Stephanie was
given the Tertiary habit of the Dominicans at Soncino and devoted herself to
ministering to the poor and sick. Some years later, she founded a community
(San Paolo) of Third Order sisters in her native town of Soncino and became its
first abbess. As a Tertiary, she had been able to go out to minister to others;
as a member of a regular community, she continued her charity, dispensing both
material and spiritual riches. People of all classes came to consult her and
ask for her prayers; Saint Angela Merici and the Dominicans, Augustine of
Biella and Blessed Osanna of Mantua, were among these.
The life of Blessed
Stephanie is a series of marvels. Only under obedience she revealed the
principal visions and ecstasies long after they happened, though many people
witnessed her in the state of ecstasy. She participated in various stages of
the Passion of our Lord, which was attested to by 21 witnesses in 1497 in a
still extant account.
She lived in constant
union with God, and her every action had upon it the imprint of His favors.
Keeping an almost perpetual fast, she punished her body with instruments of
penance. Her devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Passion of Our Lord
was intense. She could discuss the most profound truths of mystical theology,
and had the ability to read the hearts and minds of those around her, and to
prophesy future events. She was credited with performing numerous miracles of
healing.
Of the saints of the
order to whom she had a great devotion, she was particularly drawn to Saint
Thomas Aquinas, for one time, to overcome temptation of thought against purity,
she threw herself upon a cartload of thorns. Rising exhausted from this
penance, she prayed fervently to Saint Thomas, and, like that great saint, she
was girded by angels with a cord, which they tied so tightly around her waist
that she cried out in pain.
Blessed Stephanie died,
after having prophesied the day of her death and the place where she would be
buried. Her tomb became a pilgrimage site almost immediately. Her intercession
was often felt in the convent that she had founded, where the sisters obtained
both material and spiritual help through her intercession (Benedictines,
Delaney, Dorcy).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0102.shtml
Blessed Stephanie of
Quinzanis
Memorial day: January 2nd
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Born to pious parents;
her father became a Dominican tertiary while Stephana was very young. She was
taught her catechism by the stigmatic Blessed Matthew Carrieri who lived at the
nearby Dominican convent; though she was too small to understand, he told her
that she was to be his spiritual heiress. Began receiving visions of Dominican
saints from age seven, at which point she made vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience. Carrieri died when Stephana was 14; soon after he appeared to her in
a vision, and she received the stigmata.
Dominican tertiary at Soncino at age 15. Devoted to caring for the poor and
sick. She founded a community of Third Order sisters in Soncino, and served as
its first abbess. Her counsel was sought by many including Saint Angela Merici,
Blessed Augustine of Biella, and Blessed Osanna of Mantua.
Though she had no formal theological training, she could discuss mystical
theology at the most profound level. She could read the hearts and minds of the
people around her, and had the gift of prophesy and healing. She lived in a
nearly continuous fast, and inflicted severe penances on herself. Stephana
accurately predicted the date of her own death.
Born: 1457 at Soncino,
Italy
Died: 2 January 1530 of
natural causes
Beatified: December 14,
1740 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)
Prayers/Commemorations
First Vespers:
Ant. This is a wise
Virgin whom the Lord found watching, who took her lamp and oil, and when the
Lord came, she entered with Him into the marriage feast.
V. Prayer for us Blessed
Stephana
R. That we may be worthy
of the promises of Christ.
Lauds:
Ant. Come O my chosen one
and I will place My throne in thee for the King hath exceedingly desired thy
beauty.
V. Virgins shall be led
to the King after her.
R. Her companions shall
be presented to Thee.
Second Vespers:
Ant. She hath girded her
loins with courage, and hath strengthened her arm; therefore, shall he rlamp
not beput out forever.
V. Pray for us, Blessed
Stephana
R. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.
Prayers:
Let us Pray: O God,
who didst wonderfully cause Thy holy Virgin, Blessed Stephana, inflamed with
the love of the Crucified, to become a partaker of His passion, grant , we
beseech Thee, that we, by her prayers and example may likewise deserve to be
made conformable to the image of Thy Son. Who with Thee liveth and reigneth
world without end. Amen.
Prayer II
God of all consolation,
you made Blessed Stephana a sharer in the passion of Christ. With the help of
her prayers and by following her example may we be conformed to the image of
your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. - General Calendar of the Order of Preachers
SOURCE : http://www.willingshepherds.org/Dominican%20Saints%20I.html#Stephana
Short
Lives of the Dominican Saints – Blessed Stephana Quinzani, Virgin
Article
(A.D. 1457-1530)
Stephana Quinzani was
born 1457, at a little village in, the neighbourhood of Brescia in Italy. Her
parents were of the middle class in life and were both of them fervent in the
practice of their religious duties. From her earliest childhood little Stephana
continually heard an interior voice repeating to her the words, “Charity,
charity, charity!” When only five years old she consecrated herself to God with
her whole heart, and at the age of seven she made the three vows of poverty,
chastity, and obedience, adding a promise to assume later on the habit of the
Third Order of Saint Dominic, to which her father belonged. Our Lord then
appeared to her, accompanied by His Blessed Mother, Saint Dominic, Saint Thomas
Aquinas, and Saint Catharine of Siena, and espoused her to Himself, bestowing
on her a magnificent ring, which was seen by many persons.
About this time, the
Quinzani family removed to Soncino and Stephana placed herself under the
spiritual direction of Blessed Matthew Carreri of the Order of Saint Dominic,
who one day told her that at his death he should make her his heiress. The
child did not then understand the meaning of these words, but, when the servant
of God departed this life, she felt her heart painfully and mysteriously
wounded, and at the same time Blessed Matthew appeared to her and explained
that this was the inheritance he had promised to her.
When about twelve years
old, she went to hear a sermon on the Feast of Saint Andrew. That great Apostle
appeared to her in vision, holding in his hands a large cross, and addressed
her in the following words: “Behold, my daughter, the way to heaven. Love God,
fear God, honour God; flee from the world and embrace the Cross.” Love of the
Cross became thenceforth her characteristic virtue, so that it was said of her
that there were but two things for which she bore an affection, namely, Holy
Communion and sufferings. In all her visions the Cross bore a remarkable part,
and she gave herself up, not only to the practice of the severest austerities,
but to an almost uninterrupted meditation on the Passion of her Divine Spouse.
She was even permitted in some degree to undergo His sufferings in her own
person, participating on Fridays in a mysterious manner in our Lord’s agony and
sweat of blood, His scourging at the pillar, His crowning with thorns, and His
crucifixion. Her confessor, who wrote her life, testified to having seen the
sacred stigmata on her hands and feet, and the marks of the crown of thorns
upon her head.
In one of her raptures
she was given to understand that all the angels and saints together, including
even Our Blessed Lady herself, are unable to love God as much as He deserves to
be loved. Then an abyss of love opened before her eyes, and she cried out, “O
my Lord and Redeemer, grant me the grace to love all this love; otherwise I
care not to live.” But Our Lord smiled upon her and told her that her wish was
an impossible one, as her finite will could not embrace that abyss of infinite
love. Nevertheless, to comfort her, He said that He would accept her good-will,
as though she really loved to the extent to which she desired, adding, “Think
not that this great abyss of love remains unloved; for, if creatures cannot
love it, it is loved by Me, who am infinite good.”
When, for the love of
God, Blessed Stephana had made an entire renunciation of her own will in the
hands of her Confessor, Our Lord appeared to her and said, “My daughter, since
for the love of Me thou hast generously stripped thyself of thine own will, ask
what thou wilt and I will grant it to thee.” The Holy Virgin replied almost in
the words used by Saint Thomas Aquinas under similar circumstances – “I desire
nothing but Thyself, O Lord.”
At the age of fifteen
Stephana received the habit of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, from which
time she devoted herself to the care of the sick and poor in the hospitals and
to every kind of active charity. Our Lord was pleased to work many miracles by
her hands, multiplying food and money and restoring the sick to health. Her
reputation for sanctity extended far and wide. The Republic of Venice and the
Duke of Mantua pressed her to come and found Convents in their territories; but
she refused, in the hope of being able to establish one in Soncino. This she
was at length able to accomplish, placing it under the invocation of Saint Paul
the Apostle and peopling it with a fervent Community of thirty, whom she had
carefully trained to the practices of the religious life. In consequence of the
war between France and Venice the nuns were obliged, after a time, to withdraw
from their Convent and take shelter within the walls of Jan. z6 the town.
It was during this
interval that Blessed Stephana passed to her reward on 2nd January 1530, at the
age of seventy-three. She was laid to rest in the church attached to her
Convent, to which her Community was afterwards able to return. It is, however,
now suppressed, but Blessed Stephana is still held in great veneration by the
people of Soncino. She was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in the year 1740.
Prayer
O God, who didst enkindle
Blessed Stephana, Thy Virgin, with the love of the Crucified, and didst in a
wonderful manner render her a sharer in His Passion, grant, we beseech Thee,
that by her intercession and example, we may deserve to be made conformable to the
image of Thy Son. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Stephana
Quinzani, Virgin”. Short Lives of the Dominican
Saints, 1900. CatholicSaints.Info.
29 March 2019. Web. 28 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/short-lives-of-the-dominican-saints-blessed-stephana-quinzani-virgin/>
SOURCE : https://radiogalilee.com/ecoute-en-direct/
Saints and
Saintly Dominicans – 16 January
Blessed Stephana, Virgin,
O.P.
Whilst Blessed Stephana
was still a child, Blessed Matthew Carreri told her that he would make her his
heiress. In truth she had, like him, a large share in the sufferings of Jesus
on the Cross. During forty years she suffered from a pain in her heart, which
felt as if being constantly torn on a wheel. But nothing put a stop to her
zeal, and, full of desire for the glory of God, she took charge of several young
girls in order to bring them up to a good life. She understood how to carry out
the three things recommended by Saint Thomas in the matter of education: to
instruct, to please and to render souls pliant and yielding. Her efforts were
so blessed by God that, by degrees, her pupils felt themselves called to the
study of the highest perfection, and the humble school became a fervent
monastery dedicated to the Apostle Saint Paul. Blessed Stephana was held in
such high esteem that Francis I, King of France, having conquered Milan, sent
his respects to her and exempted her convent from all war taxes. When Louis
Sforza, Duke of Milan, went in disguise to see her, she was enlightened
supernaturally as to his identity and gave him frankly the counsel he needed in
order to amend his conduct. Saint Angela of Merici had several pious
conferences with her, which filled them both with consolation. Blessed Stephana
died at the age of seventy-three years (1530).
Prayer
O Blessed Stephana,
obtain for the teaching Dominicans many generous and solid vocations.
Practice
Speak of God, when you
have the opportunity, to some child or ignorant person.
– taken from the
book Saints
and Saintly Dominicans, by Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie
Cormier, O.P
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-and-saintly-dominicans-16-january/
Beata Stefana Quinzani Domenicana
Orzinuovi, Brescia, 1457
- Soncino, Cremona, 1530
Nata ad Orzinuovi (BS) da
una famiglia di agricoltori, visse aiutandoli nel lavoro dei campi. Entrata nel
1489 a far parte del Terz'Ordine Domenicano, fu assidua nella contemplazione
della Passione di Cristo, della quale portava sul corpo le stimmate. Si dedicò
con generosità al servizio dei poveri e della pace. Morì il 2 gennaio 1530 a
Soncino (CR) nel monastero da lei edificato e guidato con prudenza per anni.
Etimologia: Stefana
= corona, incoronato, dal greco
Martirologio
Romano: A Soncino in Lombardia, beata Stefana Quinzani, vergine, suora del
Terz’Ordine di San Domenico, che si dedicò con assiduità alla contemplazione
della passione del Signore e alla formazione cristiana delle fanciulle.
La Beata Stefana nacque ad Orzinuovi, ma, dopo un lungo soggiorno a Crema, visse poi a Soncino, dove nel convento dei Domenicani era luce a tutti di mirabile santità. Il Beato Domenicano Matteo Carreri, quando era ancora una piccola bimba, le predisse una ferita del divino amore. A sette anni Stefana fece voto di castità, e Gesù, apparendole, le mise al dito un anello prezioso. A 15 anni prese l’Abito del Terz’Ordine Domenicano, ma già in precedenza n’era stata rivestita dal glorioso Padre Domenico in una celeste visione. Fu cinta dagli angeli del cingolo di S. Tommaso, restando per sempre confermata in una perfetta purità. La Beata Stefana fa parte di quell’eletto stuolo di vergini Gusmane che hanno portato nel corpo e nello spirito tutti i dolori del Salvatore. Per quarant’anni, infatti, ogni venerdì, sperimentò l’intera Passione di Gesù e portò impresse nel proprio corpo le sacre Stimmate. Come a S. Caterina da Siena le fu cambiato miracolosamente il cuore, ed ebbe il dono di conoscere i più occulti pensieri e le cose future. Tanta copia di celesti carismi fruttificarono in un intenso apostolato che si estese ad ogni classe di persone. Un giorno Gesù, apparendole, le disse: “Figliola, tu mi hai fatto il dono, completo della tua volontà, quale ricompensa desideri?”; “Non voglio altra mercede che Te medesimo”, rispose Stefana. Mori santamente pronunziando le parole di Gesù sulla croce: “In manus tuas Domine, commendo spiritum meum!” Papa Benedetto XIV il 14 dicembre 1740 ha confermato il culto. Le sue reliquie, nel 1988, sono state riportate a Soncino.
L'Ordine Domenicano la ricorda il 3 gennaio mentre nelle diocesi di Brescia e
di Crema la sua memoria si celebra il 16 giugno.
Autore: Franco
Mariani
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/57650
Den salige Stefana
Quinzani (1457-1530)
Minnedag:
2. januar
Den salige Stefana
Quinzani [de Quinzanis] ble født den 5. februar 1457 på det lille stedet
Orzinuovi (Orcinuovi) i nærheten av Brescia i regionen Lombardia i Nord-Italia.
Hun kom fra en from bondefamilie av middelklassen, og hun hjalp til i arbeidet
på markene.
Da hun fortsatt var svært
liten, ble faren dominikanertertiar (Tertius Ordo Sancti Dominici –
TOSD). Da hun sammen med ham besøkte dominikanerklosteret, møtte hun den
salige Matteus
Carreri, som var benådet med Kristi sårmerker (stigmata). Hans innflytelse
skulle vare gjennom hennes lange liv. Han lærte henne katekismen og mye av sin
egen ånd av hellighet. Faktisk fortalte han henne at hun en dag skulle bli hans
åndelige arving. Dette forsto hun ikke før mange år senere.
Allerede i svært ung
alder startet hun et hellig liv med faste og botsøvelser. Visjonene som skulle
berike hennes mystiske liv, begynte da hun var syv år, og på den tiden avla hun
også private løfter om fattigdom, kyskhet og lydighet. Hun var benådet med
praktfulle visjoner av Vårherre og flere av de dominikanske helgenene, og hun
fikk en strålende ring som et tegn på sin mystiske ekteskap med Kristus. Fra da
av var hennes hjerte og sinn fokusert på Gud, og ingen verdslig tiltrekning
hadde makt nok til å distrahere henne.
Da Stefana var 14 år,
døde Matteus Carreri. Hun fikk da en voldsom smerte og forsto at hun hadde fått
stigmata. Dette var den arven Matteus hadde lovt henne. Da intensiverte hun
sine botsøvelser og hun mediterte nesten uten stans over Kristi lidelse. I
tillegg til hennes fysiske deltakelse i Kristi lidelse måtte hun gjennomgå en
åndelig forlatthet og tørrhet, en tilstand som varte i førti år.
Som 15-åring sluttet hun
seg til legdominikanerne eller tertiarene i den nærliggende byen Crema. Hun
bodde hjemme i mange år og arbeidet blant de syke og fattige, inntil hun rundt
1485 var i stand til å grunnlegge klosteret San Paulo for dominikanertertiarer
i Soncino, som lå noen kilometer lengre øst og i dag er en livlig småby. Der
ble hun den første abbedissen. Som tertiar hadde hun kunnet gå ut og tjene
andre, og som et medlem av en regulert kommunitet forsatte hun sin tjeneste ved
hjelp av både materielle og åndelige rikdommer. Folk av alle klasser kom for å konsultere
henne og be om hennes bønner. Blant dem var den hellige Angela Merici og
de salige dominikanerne Augustin av Biella og Hosanna av Mantova.
Omtrent fra
grunnleggelsen i Soncino opplevde hun hver fredag i førti år i ekstase Kristi
lidelse og mottok Kristi sårmerker (stigmata). Det er bevart en samtidig
beretning fra 1497, undertegnet av 21 vitner, som i detalj beskriver en av
ekstasene hvor Stefana representerte i sin egen person de ulike stadiene i
Kristi lidelseshistorie. Opplevelsene var smertefulle, men Stefana bar smerte
og pine i fast tro på at Gud hadde utsett henne til disse lidelsene.
Hun fastet nesten
kontinuerlig og straffet kroppen med botsverktøy. Hennes hengivenhet til Det
hellige sakrament og Kristi lidelse var intens. Hun hadde evnen til å lese
hjerter og sinn til dem rundt henne i tillegg til å forutsi fremtidige
hendelser. Hun ble tilskrevet utallige mirakuløse helbredelser. Av de helgenene
i ordenen som hun var spesielt hengiven, ble hun særlig tiltrukket av den
hellige Thomas
Aquinas. En gang kastet hun seg i et tornekratt for å komme over fristelsen
til urene tanker. Da hun reiste seg, ba hun inntrengende til Thomas, og i
likhet med den store helgenen ble hun omgitt av engler med en snor, som de
knyttet så hardt rundt hennes midje at hun skrek ut i smerte.
Hun døde den 2. januar
1530 i Soncino etter å ha forutsagt dagen og stedet hvor hun ville gravlegges.
Hennes grav ble nesten umiddelbart et valfartsmål. Hennes forbønn ble ofte
merket i klosteret hun hadde grunnlagt, hvor søstrene fikk både materiell og
åndelig hjelp gjennom hennes forbønn. Hun ble saligkåret den 14. desember 1740
ved at hennes kult ble stadfestet av pave Benedikt XIV (1740-58). Hennes
minnedag er 2. januar. Hun æres fortsatt i kirken San Giacomo i Soncino, hvor
man i et av de høyre sidekapellene kan se to vakre bilder av henne.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Butler (I), Benedictines, Delaney, Schauber/Schindler,
Index99, KIR, Patron Saints SQPN, Heiligenlexikon, santiebeati.it -
Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Opprettet: 2000-06-07 23:21 - Sist oppdatert: 2006-04-23 15:46
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/squinzan
Stephana Quinzani
auch: von Soncino
Gedenktag katholisch: 2. Januar
nicht gebotener Gedenktag im Dominikanerorden: 3. Januar
nicht gebotener Gedenktag im Bistum Brescia: 16. Juni
Name bedeutet: die
Krone (griech. - latein.)
Nonne, Mystikerin
* 1457 in Orzinuovi bei Brescia in Italien
† 1530 in Soncino bei
Crema in Italien
Stephana Quinzani ging
als Terziarin zu den Dominkanern des
damaligen Dominikanerklosters -
heute ein Theater - in Crema und gründete 1485 im nahen Soncino ein Kloster des Dritten
Ordens - heute das Oratorium San Paolo, ein Zentrum der Caritas -, das
dann sie leitete. Von nun an erlitt sie über vier Jahrzehnte jeden Freitag die
Qualen der Passion Christi,
trug an Händen und Füßen die Wundmale und sah sich als Büßerin auserwählt.
Kanonisation: Stephanas
Verehrung wurde 1740 vom Papst anerkannt.
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Quellen:
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Pattloch, München 2001
• Infotafel in der Pfarrkirche in
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korrekt zitieren: Joachim Schäfer: Artikel Stephana Quinzani, aus dem Ökumenischen Heiligenlexikon - https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienS/Stephana_Quinzani.htm, abgerufen am 28. 1. 2025
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