Bienheureuse Catherine
Kosic
Ermite au
Montenegro (+ 1565)
Née en 1493 au Montenegro,
Catherine Kosic a été baptisée dans l'Église orthodoxe grecque. Elle garde les
troupeaux et s'adonne à la prière contemplative. Comme elle désirait prier dans
des églises, elle part à Cattaro et devient servante d'une femme catholique.
Elle désire devenir ermite et s'installe dans une cellule; en écho à une
vision, elle est transférée dans une autre cellule où elle suit la règle de
Saint Dominique pendant 52 ans. Elle prend le nom d'Osanna en l'honneur de la
bienheureuse Osanna de
Mantoue. Elle menait une vie très dure dans sa cellule mais de nombreuses
personnes venaient la consulter et un groupe de religieuses la considéraient
comme leur fondatrice. Quand la ville fut attaquée par les turcs, on demanda
l'aide de ses prières et comme une autre fois pour une épidémie de peste, on
dit qu'elle sauva la ville.
Béatifiée en 1934.
À Kostor au Monténégro,
en 1565, la bienheureuse Catherine, vierge. Baptisée dans l’Église orthodoxe,
elle reçut, en entrant dans l’Ordre de la Pénitence de Saint-Dominique, le nom
d’Hosanna, vécut en recluse durant cinquante-et-un ans dans une sainte contemplation
et, au moment de l’offensive des Turcs, le peuple chrétien attribua à ses
prières la délivrance de la ville.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11640/Bienheureuse-Catherine-Kosic.html
Bienheureuse Hosanna de
Cattaro
Vierge tertiaire
dominicaine monténégrine
Fête le 27 avril
TOSD
près de Komani [Releza],
Monténégro, 25 novembre 1493 – † Kotor (Cattaro) 25 avril 1565
Autre graphie :
Hosanna de Cattaro ou de Kotor
SOURCE : http://www.martyretsaint.com/hosanna-de-cattaro/
Bse Ozana Kotorska
Dominicaine, recluse († 1565)
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zana, dans le siècle
Catherine Kosic, naît à Kotor (Monténégro) le 25 novembre 1493.
Sa vie a un charme
particulier. Petite bergère d’humble famille et de confession orthodoxe, elle
s'adonne à la prière contemplative.
Ravie par la beauté des
magnifiques panoramas de son Monténégro, elle s’éprend du Créateur de tant de
merveilles et avec une ardeur insolite elle lui demande de se montrer à elle.
Et là, dans la solitude des montagnes, Jésus lui apparaît, d’abord petit
enfant, puis crucifié, imprimant dans son cœur une marque indélébile.
Quand elle eut 12 ans, elle eut un fort désir d’aller en ville, où elle sentait qu’elle pourrait prier bien mieux. Sa mère la plaça à Kotor comme servante chez une riche catholique qui la laissait aller prier à l’église tant qu’elle voulait, et c’est ainsi qu’elle devient catholique. Ayant fait la connaissance des dominicains, à 22 ans elle prend une décision héroïque : devenir recluse pour toujours, en prenant l’habit et la règle du Tiers Ordre dominicain.
Elle prend le nom d'Osanna en l'honneur de la bienheureuse Osanna de Mantoue.
Elle s'installe dans une cellule, puis dans une autre (à côté de l’église
dominicaine Saint-Paul) où elle suit la règle de saint Dominique pendant 52
ans, offrant sa vie pour le salut du monde, immergée dans la contemplation des
douleurs de Jésus et dans la complète immolation d’elle-même.
De nombreuses personnes
venaient la consulter et un groupe de religieuses dominicaines vint s’installer
près d’elle, elles finirent par être si nombreuses qu’un couvent fut construit
pour elles. Elle continuait à avoir des visions : la Vierge, l’Enfant Jésus,
divers saints, et même le diable. Elle fut maîtresse de sainteté pour
d’innombrables âmes, mais surtout fut l’ange tutélaire de Kotor. Quand la ville
fut attaquée par les Turcs, on demanda l'aide de ses prières et Kotor fut
libérée ; et lors d’une épidémie de peste on dit qu'elle sauva la ville.
Elle meurt le 27 avril 1565 ; son corps repose dans l’église Sainte-Marie de Kotor.
Ozana a été béatifiée en 1934 par Pie XI (Ambrogio Damiano
Achille Ratti, 1922-1939).
SOURCE : https://www.levangileauquotidien.org/FR/display-saint/0d4e2c98-9d1d-49ee-a607-37206e77414b
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vitraj
blažene Ozane Kotorske u crkvi Gospe Lurdske, hr:Rijeka
Also
known as
Catherine Cosie
Catherine Kosic
Catherine of Montenegro
Hosanna of Kotor
Ossana of Cattaro
Ozana Kotorska
Teacher of Mysticism
Trumpet of the Holy
Spirit
Profile
Born to Greek Orthodox
parents, and baptized in
that tradition. She was a shepherdess in
her youth, spending her solitary hours in prayer,
and began to have visions of the Christ child. When she was 12 years old, the
visions were followed by an odd desire to travel to
the town of Cattaro,
Dalmatia (modern Kotor,
Montenegro) where she felt she could pray better.
Her mother arranged
a position for Catherine as a servant to
a wealthy Catholic woman who
allowed the girl as
much time as she wished for church visits. In Cattaro,
Catherine converted to
Roman Catholicism.
In her late teens she
felt a call to live the hard, spiritual life of an anchoress.
Though she was very young for such a calling, her spiritual director had her a
walled up cell built
near Saint Bartholomew’s
church in Cattaro.
She later moved to a cell at
Saint Paul’s church, and became a Dominican tertiary,
taking the name Osanna in memory of Blessed Osanna
of Mantua; she would follow the Dominican rule
for the next 52 years. A group of Dominican sisters
took up residence near her, consulted her for guidance, sought her prayers,
and considered her their leader; there were so many that a Dominican convent was
founded for them.
In her tiny cell she
received many visions including the Christ as a baby, Our Lady,
several saints,
and demons who
opposed her prayer life.
Satan appeared once in the guise of Mary; she
knew it was the devil when
the vision tried to get her to give up the religious
life. When the city was attacked by the Turks, the towns people credited
their deliverance to her prayers.
Tradition says that her prayers saved
the city from the plague.
Born
25
November 1493 at
Kumano, Montenegro as Catherine Cosie
27 April 1565 in Kotor,
Montenegro of natural causes
interred in the Church of
Saint Paul, Kotor,
Montenegro
remains moved to the
Church of Saint Mary in Kotor,
Montenegro in 1807 after
the French army turned
the Church of Saint Paul into a warehouse
21
December 1927 by Pope Pius
XI (cultus
confirmed)
1934 by Pope Pius
XI (beatified)
Kotor,
Montenegro
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Cattaro“. CatholicSaints.Info. 10 June 2022. Web. 3 April 2023.
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SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-hosanna-of-cattaro/
Blessed Hosanna of Cattaro, OP Tert. V (AC)
(also known as Ossana)
Born in Kumano,
Montenegro, in 1493; died 1565; cultus confirmed in 1928; beatified in 1934.
Catherine Kosic (Cosie) was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. As a young
girl, whe tended her family's sheep; thus, left alone for long periods of time,
she developed a habit of contemplative prayer. One day while watching the
flocks, she saw a pretty child lying asleep on the grass. Attracted by its
beauty, she went to pick up the baby, but it disappeared, leaving Catherine
with a feeling of great loneliness.
She told her mother about
the incident but received little understanding; her mother told her that God
didn't appear to such poor people, and that the Christ Child was simply a
figment of her imagination. After several more apparitions of which she wisely
said nothing, Catherine developed a desire to visit Cattaro because there were
several churches there in which she felt that she could pray better. Her mother
thought this urge was unreasonable, but she finally arranged for Catherine to
go to Cattaro as a servant of a wealthy woman. Her mother gave little thought
to the fact that the woman was a pious Catholic, but the girl rejoiced in her
good luck. At the age of 12, Catherine settled down as a servant to the kindly
woman who made no objection to the fact that Catherine's errands invariably led
her past the church, where she would stop for a visit.
After a few years of the
pleasant life, Catherine consulted her spiritual director about becoming a
recluse. He thought her too young, but she continued to insist. After much
prayer and discussion, they decided that she should follow the life of a
hermit.
In the Middle Ages, it
was common for every church or place of pilgrimage to have one or more cells in
which solitaries dwelt in prayer and penance. Such a cell was built near the
Saint Bartholomew's in Cattaro. It had a window through which the anchorite
could hear Mass and another tiny window to which people would come occasionally
to ask for prayers or to give food. Catherine was conducted to her cell in
solemn ceremony, and, after making promises of stability, the door was sealed.
In response to a vision,
she was later transferred to a cell at the Church of St. Paul, where she
followed the rule of the tertiaries of Saint Dominic for 52 years. Upon
becoming a Dominican, she chose the name Osanna, in honor of Blessed Osanna of
Mantua, a Dominican tertiary who had died in 1505.
The life of an anchorite
is barren of comforts and replete with penances. Even without the spiritual
punishments that she endured, it was a rugged life. Osanna wore the coarsest of
clothes, ate almost nothing, and endured the heat and cold and misery of
enclosure in a small space for half a century. Her tiny cell, however, was
often bright with heavenly visitors. Our Lord appeared to her many times,
usually in the form of the beautiful baby she had seen while tending her
flocks. Our Lady visited, too, with several of the saints, as well as demons
who attempted to distract her from prayer. Once the devil appeared to her in
the form of the Blessed Virgin and told her to modify her penances. By
obedience to her confessor, she managed to penetrate this clever disguise and
vanquish her enemy.
Although she lived alone,
there was nothing selfish about Osanna's spirituality. A group of her Dominican
sisters, who considered her their leader, consulted her frequently and sought
her prayers. A convent of sisters founded at Cattaro regarded her as their
foundress, because of her prayers, although she never saw the place. When the
city was attacked by the Turks, the people ran to her for help, and they
credited their deliverance to her prayers. Another time, her prayers saved them
from the plague (Benedictines, Dorcy).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0427.shtml
Bl. Osanna of Cattaro
Feastday: April 27
Patron: of Kotor, Montenegro
Birth: 1493
Death: 1565
Catherine Cosie, of
Komani, Montenegro, was the daughter of Greek Orthodox parents. As a young
girl, she worked as a shepherdess. She is said to have experienced visions of
the Child Jesus and
of Christ on the
cross that induced her to ask her mother to take her to a Catholic church
in order to venerate images of the Savior there. Subsequently, with her
parent's approval, Catherine took a job as a maid for
a Catholic family in
the city of Kotor (Cattaro). In this environment, she eventually became a Catholic herself.
Several years later, Catherine heard a sermon on Good Friday that
led her to become an anchoress in a cell adjoining one of Kotor's churches.
Thereafter, she became a Third Order Dominican, taking the name Osanna. She
experienced further visions of Christ in the different
mysteries of his life, from his infancy to his resurrection and ascension.
Afflicted by demonic manifestations, Osanna defended herself by making
the sign of
the cross and by invoking the name of Jesus. At the end of a final
illness borne with heroic patience, she repeatedly uttered the name of Jesus before breathing her
last.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5765
Blessed Hosanna of Catharo, V.O.P
Memorial Day: April 27th
Profile
Catherine Kosic (Cosie) was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. As a young
girl, when tending her family's sheep; thus, left alone for long periods of
time, she developed a habit of contemplative prayer. One day while watching the
flocks, she saw a pretty child lying asleep on the grass. Attracted by its
beauty, she went to pick up the baby, but it disappeared, leaving Catherine
with a feeling of great loneliness.
She
told her mother about the incident but received little understanding; her
mother told her that God didn't appear to such poor people, and that the Christ
Child was simply a figment of her imagination. After several more apparitions
of which she wisely said nothing, Catherine developed a desire to visit Cattaro
because there were several churches there in which she felt that she could pray
better. Her mother thought this urge was unreasonable, but she finally arranged
for Catherine to go to Cattaro as a servant of a wealthy woman. Her mother gave
little thought to the fact that the woman was a pious Catholic, but the girl
rejoiced in her good luck. At the age of 12, Catherine settled down as a
servant to the kindly woman who made no objection to the fact that Catherine's
errands invariably led her past the church, where she would stop for a visit.
After
a few years of the pleasant life, Catherine consulted her spiritual director
about becoming a recluse. He thought her too young, but she continued to
insist. After much prayer and discussion, they decided that she should follow the
life of a hermit. In the Middle Ages, it was common for every church or place
of pilgrimage to have one or more cells in which solitaries dwelt in prayer and
penance. Such a cell was built near the Saint Bartholomew's in Cattaro. It had
a window through which the anchorite could hear Mass and another tiny window to
which people would come occasionally to ask for prayers or to give food.
Catherine was conducted to her cell in solemn ceremony, and, after making
promises of stability, the door was sealed.
In response
to a vision, she was later transferred to a cell at the Church of St. Paul,
where she followed the rule of the tertiaries of Saint Dominic for 52 years.
Upon becoming a Dominican, she chose the name Osanna, in honor of Blessed
Osanna of Mantua, a Dominican tertiary who had died in 1505. The life of an
anchorite is barren of comforts and replete with penances. Even without the
spiritual punishments that she endured, it was a rugged life. Osanna wore the
coarsest of clothes, ate almost nothing, and endured the heat and cold and
misery of enclosure in a small space for half a century. Her tiny cell,
however, was often bright with heavenly visitors. Our Lord appeared to her many
times, usually in the form of the beautiful baby she had seen while tending her
flocks. Our Lady visited, too, with several of the saints, as well as demons
who attempted to distract her from prayer. Once the devil appeared to her in
the form of the Blessed Virgin and told her to modify her penances. By
obedience to her confessor, she managed to penetrate this clever disguise and
vanquish her enemy.
Although she lived alone, there was nothing selfish about Osanna's
spirituality. A group of her Dominican sisters, who considered her their
leader, consulted her frequently and sought her prayers. A convent of sisters
founded at Cattaro regarded her as their foundress, because of her prayers,
although she never saw the place. When the city was attacked by the Turks, the
people ran to her for help, and they credited their deliverance to her prayers.
Another time, her prayers saved them from the plague (Benedictines, Dorcy).
Born: 1493 at
Kumano, Montenegro as Catherine Cosie
Died: 1565 of
natural causes
Beatified: 1928
(cultus confirmed); 1934 (beautified)
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. Pray for us Blessed
Hosanna.
R. That we may be made
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 has girded her
loins with courage and hath strengthened her arm; therefore shall her lamp not
be put out forever.
V. Pray for us Blessed
Hosanna.
R. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.
Prayer:
Let us Pray: Renew
in our hearts, O Lord, the love of Thy Cross: that by the intercession and
example of Blessed Hosanna, Thy penitential Virgin, we may become partakers in
the Passion of Christ and His glory. Through our Lord. Amen.
SOURCE : http://www.willingshepherds.org/Dominican%20Saint%20III.html#Hosanna
DOMINICAN OP, INCORRUPTIBLES, MYSTICS, SAINT OF THE DAY
Saint of the Day – 27
April – Blessed Osanna of Cattaro OP (1493-1565)
Posted on April
27, 2021
Saint of the Day – 27
April – Blessed Osanna of Cattaro OP (1493-1565) Virgin, Mystic, Anchoress.,
Tertiary of the Order of St Dominic, spiritual guide. Born on 25 November 1493
at Kumano, Montenegro as Catherine Cosie and died on 27 April 1565 in
Kotor, Montenegro of natural causes, aged 71. Patronage – Kotor, Montenegro.
Also known as – Catherine Cosie, Catherine Kosic, Catherine of Montenegro,
Hosanna of Kotor, Ossana of Cattaro, Ozana Kotorska, “Teacher of Mysticism,”
“Angel of Peace,” “Virgin Reconciler”and “Trumpet of the Holy Spirit.” Her
Body is incorrupt.
Over the course of her
life, the people of Kotor came to call her “the trumpet of the Holy Spirit” and
the “teacher of mysticism.” People from all walks of life came to her for
advice and she interceded particularly ,for peace in the town and among feuding
families. Therefore, she was
also called “the Virgin Reconciler” and the “Angel of Peace.”
The life of this Blessed has a very special charm. Born
in 1493 to very humble Orthodox parents in Kebeza, during the heart of the
Greek schism, she was given the name of Catherine at her baptism.
This little shepherdess,
enraptured by the beauty of the magnificent views of her Montenegro, she fell
in love with the Creator of so many wonders and, with unusual ardour, sheasked
Him to show Himself to her. And there, in the solitude of the mountains, Jesus
appeared to her first, a tender child and then Crucified, imprinting an
indelible seal on her virgin heart.
When she was a little
older, she was placed in Kotor as a servant in the family of a Senator, an
excellent Catholic. Here, she was able to educate herself in the true faith and
to receive the Sacraments. Having known the Dominicans, at the age of
twenty-two, she made a heroic decision: -to become a recluse forever, taking up
the habit and the Rule of the Third Order of St Dominic.
With the Tertiary Habit, he also took the name of
Osanna, in memory of another illustrious Tertiary, Blessed Osanna da
Mantova OP (1449-1505) – her life here: https://anastpaul.com/2019/06/18/saint-of-the-day-18-june-blessed-osanna-andreasi-op-1449-1505/ and more here: https://anastpaul.com/2019/06/18/art-dei-18-june-paintings-in-blessed-osanna-andreasis-house/
And so, walled up in a cell next to the Church of St
Paolo, run by the Dominicans, she lived in the contemplation of the pains of
Jesus and in the complete immolation of herself. She was also a
teacher of holiness to countless souls but above all she was the guardian angel
of Kotor. Although she lived alone, there was nothing selfish about Osanna’s
spirituality. A group of her Dominican sisters, who considered her their
leader, consulted her frequently and sought her prayers. A convent of sisters
founded at Cattaro, regarded her as their foundress,because of her spiritual
guidance and prayers, although she never saw the place. When the City was
attacked by the Turks, the people ran to her for help and they credited their
deliverance to her prayers. Another time, her prayers saved them from the
plague.
She died on 27 April
1565. Her body rests in the Church of Santa Maria in Kotor.
The incorrupt body of
Osanna was kept in the Church of St Paul until 1807, when the French Army
converted the church into a warehouse. Her body was then brought to the Church
of St Mary. The people of Kotor venerated her as a saint. In 1905, the process
for her Beatification began in Kotor and was successfully completed in Rome. On 21 December 1927, Pope Pius XI approved her cultus,
invoking its intercession for Christian unity and in 1934, he formally
Beatified her.
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BLESSED OSANNA OF KOTOR
In St. Paul’s Church there
is an anchoress’ cell where Blessed Osanna stayed. She is the first woman to be
formally beatified in the Catholic Church, coming from Montenegrin territory.
Blessed Osanna was
born on 25th November 1493 in the village of Relezi (around 16 km east of
Cetinje in Lješanska nahia) to an Orthodox family, under the name of Jovana-Joše
Đujović, and baptized as Katarina (Kate), and according to some sources
having the family name Kosić. Her name coincides with the date of birth,
when Saint Catherine, Alexandrian martyr, is celebrated.
At the age of 14 (in
1507), after the demise of her father Pero, Katarina manages to convince her
mother to let her go to Kotor “inspired by God’s Grace”. In order to be able to
feed herself and to find protection in the unknown town, she worked as a
servant in the house of Aleksandar Buća (“Leso Bućinov, a councillor and judge
in Kotor”) and his wife Marina (born Bisanti).
While serving to Buća family, Katarina, with all her
dedication to work, showed particular affection to the destitute. After
seven years of service, at the age of 21, she left Buća family and decided to
become a nun. On the day of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, on 25th
January 1515, she joined the third order of Saint Dominic, when she took
the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and changed her baptized name
to Osanna.
Miraculous powers were
eventually added to Osanna’s kindness and religiousness, i.e. on the occasion
when she predicted an earthquake in Kotor (in 1563) or when she was saying
prayers to fight plague. She is particularly remembered from the time of the
attack launched on Kotor by Hayred’din Barbarossa, when he came to Kotor
ramparts with 70 galleys and 30.000 sailors on 11th August 1539. On that
occasion, Kotor Bishop Luka Bisanti personally asked Blessed Osanna to come
before the people and encourage them to defend their town. “Blessed Osanna’s persuasive
words on the certainty of victory made great impact on the population to the
extent that they all took up arms, including women and children“, as quoted in
the sources.
On 16th August 1539,
Barbarossa retreated from Kotor Bay leaving the Town unconquered. In memory of
this event, new (northern) Town Gate on the River Škurda was erected
in 1540. As for Blessed Osanna, she, while still living, will become hugely
venerated both in the Church and in the Town.
She died on 27th April
1565, at the age of 72, after spending fifty-two years of hard penance.
Formal announcement of her cult started no sooner than in 1905, and ended in
1907. On 20th December 1927, Pope Pius XI allowed public and
ecclesiastic veneration of the Blessed Osanna, by which this Montenegrin
shepherdess, a Kotor maid and Dominican tertiary, became the first
south-Slav to be pronounced a Catholic saint.
In 1930, big celebration
was held in Kotor on the occasion of “the confirmation and approval of
veneration of the Blessed Osanna, the first south Slavic female saint, by the
Apostolic See”, and on 24th June of the same year, Osanna’s body was placed in
a new sarcophagus in Saint Mary’s Church. The sarcophagus is the work of
Antun Augustinčić, an academic sculptor. The translation was performed in the
presence of Kotor Bishop and a group of physicians who established that (365
years after the demise): “the Body was incorrupt, that her arms were flexible
in the area of the joints, that her skin was largely intact, that her joints
were not separated (both feet were missing), all the fingers were intact,
including the nails …“, which was an additional confirmation of her “beatitude
and sanctity”.
Blessed Osanna cult
is very much present nowadays, besides Kotor and the entire Boka Kotorska Bay,
also in Dalmatia. Many venerate her as a representative of ecumenism – movement
for the unification of Eastern and Western Churches.
SOURCE : https://muzejikotor.me/en/home/saint-pauls-church/blessed-osanna-of-kotor/
Beata Caterina da
Montenegro (Osanna di Cattaro) Domenicana
Kebeza, 1493 - Kotor,
1565
Nata nel Montenegro da
genitori ortodossi, trascorse l'adolescenza pascolando il gregge della sua
famiglia. Fattasi cattolica entrò nel Terz'Ordine domenicano, visse da reclusa
per 51 anni offrendo la sua vita per la salvezza del mondo. Morì a Cattaro
(Kotor) nella cui chiesa di s. Maria è venerato il corpo.
Martirologio Romano: A
Cattaro nel Montenegro, beata Caterina, vergine, che, battezzata nella Chiesa
ortodossa, entrò nell’Ordine della Penitenza di San Domenico assumendo il nome
di Osanna; visse in clausura per cinquantuno anni immersa nella divina
contemplazione e dedita alla preghiera di intercessione per il popolo cristiano
durante l’invasione turca.
La vita di questa Beata ha un incanto tutto particolare. Nata nel 1493 da umilissimi genitori ortodossi a Kebeza, in seno allo scisma greco, al battesimo le fu imposto il nome di Caterina. Piccola pastorella, rapita dalla bellezza dei magnifici panorami del suo Montenegro, s’innamora del Creatore di tante meraviglie e, con insolito ardore, gli va chiedendo che si mostri a lei. E là, nella solitudine dei monti, Gesù le appare prima, tenero bimbo, e poi Crocifisso, imprimendo nel suo vergine cuore un sigillo indelebile. Collocata in seguito a Kotor come serva presso la famiglia di un Senatore, ottimo cattolico, ha modo d’istruirsi nella vera fede e di ricevere i Sacramenti. Conosciuti i Domenicani, a ventidue anni prende una decisione eroica: rendersi reclusa per sempre, prendendo l’Abito e la Regola del Terz’Ordine di San Domenico. Con l’Abito di Terziaria assunse anche il nome di Osanna, in memoria di un’altra illustre Terziaria, Osanna da Mantova. E così, murata in una celletta, accanto alla chiesa di S. Paolo, retta dai Domenicani, visse nella contemplazione dei dolori di Gesù e nella completa immolazione di se stessa. Fu anche maestra di santità a innumerevoli anime, ma soprattutto fu l’angelo tutelare di Kotor. Morì il 27 aprile 1565. Il suo corpo riposa nella chiesa di Santa Maria a Kotor. Papa Pio XI il 21 dicembre 1927 ha ratificato il culto, invocandone l’intercessione per l’unità dei cristiani.
Autore: Franco Mariani
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90766
Den salige Hosanna av Kotor (1493-1565)
Minnedag: 27. april
Skytshelgen for Kotor (med den hellige Tryfon)
Den salige Hosanna (it:
Osanna) av Kotor (kroatisk: Ozana Kotorska) ble født som Katarina Cosie (Kosic)
den 25. november 1493 nær landsbyen Komani [Relezi] i Montenegro, hvor hun var
datter av en fattig, ortodoks familie. Som ung jente var hun gjeter for
familiens sauer og geiter, og når hun dermed var alene i lange perioder,
utviklet hun en vane med kontemplativ bønn. Legenden hevder at hun også fikk
visjoner av Jesus. En dag mens hun passet flokken, så hun et vakkert guttebarn
som lå og sov i gresset. Hun ble tiltrukket av barnets skjønnhet og gikk for å
ta ham opp, men han forsvant og etterlot Katarina med en følelse av stor
ensomhet.
Hun fortalte moren om
hendelsen, men fikk liten forståelse. Moren fortalte henne at Gud ikke viste
seg for slike fattige mennesker som dem, og at dette Jesusbarnet bare fantes i
hennes fantasi. Etter flere andre åpenbaringer, blant annet av den korsfestede
Jesus, som hun klokelig nok ikke fortalte noe om, utviklet Katarina et ønske om
å besøke Kotor (Cattaro) i Montenegro, ved Boka Kotorska, «de kroatiske helgeners
bukt», fordi det der var mange katolske kirker hvor hun følte at hun kunne be
bedre foran bilder av Kristus, spesielt i katedralen, som var viet den hellige
Tryfon (Sv. Tripun).
Hennes mor syntes at
denne anmodningen var urimelig, men etter at faren var død, sørget moren til
slutt for at Katarina kunne reise til Kotor som tjener for en rik kvinne fra
den velkjente familien Buca. Hennes mor tenkte ikke særlig over det faktum at
denne kvinnen var en from katolikk, men Katarina gledet seg over sitt hell. I en
alder av 12 år begynte hun som tjener for den vennlige kvinnen, som ikke
protesterte mot at når Katarina gikk ærender, førte de henne ofte forbi kirken,
hvor hun gikk innom. I fritiden lærte hun seg å lese og skrive, og i tillegg
til bøker på morsmålet, leste hun bøker på latin og italiensk, spesielt Den
hellige skrift. På et tidspunkt mottok hun trosundervisning og konverterte til
Den katolske kirke.
Etter syv år med et
behagelig liv opplevde Katarina langfredag 1513 en spesielt gripende preken i
katedralen St. Tryfon, og hun bestemte seg for å vie seg til kontemplasjon over
Kristi lidelse, bønn, bot og gode gjerninger. Hun spurte sin åndelige veileder
om hun skulle bli eremitt. Han syntes at hun var for ung, men hun fortsatte å
insistere. Etter mye bønn og diskusjon bestemte de at hun skulle begynne å leve
som inkluser (lat inclusio = innesperring), det vil si innemurt
nonne.
I middelalderen var det
vanlig at alle kirker eller valfartssteder hadde en eller flere celler med
eneboere som levde innemurt der i bønn og bot. Cellene hadde et vindu hvor
eneboeren kunne høre messen og et annet lite vindu der folk av og til kom for å
be om bønner eller for å gi ham mat. En slik celle ble bygd nær kirken St.
Bartolomeus (Sv. Bartol) i Kotor. Katarina ble i 1513 ført til sin celle i en
høytidelig seremoni, og etter at hun hadde avlagt løfte
om stabilitas (stedbundethet), ble døren forseglet. Den 25. januar
1515 ble hun nonne etter regelen til dominikanertertiarene (Tertius Ordo
Sancti Dominici – TOSD). Samtidig tok hun ordensnavnet Hosanna (it:
Osanna, kr: Ozana) etter den salige Hosanna Andreasi av
Mantova, en dominikanertertiar som døde i 1505. Senere ødela et jordskjelv
hennes beskjedne hjem, og som svar på en visjon flyttet hun i 1521 til en celle
ved kirken St. Paulus (Sv. Pavle), hvor hun påbegynte et strengt botsliv.
Et liv som rekluser er
uten komfort, men full av bot. Selv uten de åndelige straffene hun måtte tåle,
var det et krevende liv. Hosanna bar de groveste klær, spiste nesten ingen ting
og gjennomlevde varmen og kulden og prøvelsene som fulgte med å være lukket
inne i et bitte lite rom i et halvt århundre. Imidlertid var hennes lille celle
opplyst av himmelske besøkende. Kristus viste seg for henne mange ganger,
vanligvis i form av det vakre spedbarnet hun hadde sett da hun gjette
saueflokken. Jomfru Maria besøkte henne også sammen med flere helgener, men det
gjorde også demoner som prøvde å distrahere henne fra å be. En gang viste djevelen
seg for henne i form av Jomfru Maria og
ba henne om å lette på sine botsøvelser. Ved lydighet mot sin skriftefar klarte
hun å gjennomskue denne dyktige forkledningen og å overvinne sin fiende.
Hosanna var spesielt
hengiven til Kristi lidelse, som var gjenstand for hennes trofaste
kontemplasjon. Hun ba og ofret konstant for sjelene i skjærsilden. Hun mottok
hellig kommunion tre ganger i uken, noe som den gangen ble betraktet som alt
for ofte. Hennes dager ble tilbrakt i faste og andre botsgjerninger. Folket i
Kotor kalte henne «Den Hellige Ånds trompet» og «mystikkens lærer». Både
alminnelige mennesker, adelsfolk, byens borgere og biskoper kom for å be om
hennes råd. Hun grep spesielt inn for å skape fred i byen og blant splittede
adelsfamilier, vanlige mennesker og adelen i tillegg til blant enkeltmennesker.
Derfor ble hun kalt «jomfru-forsoneren» og «fredens engel».
Selv om Hosanna levde
alene i 52 år, var det ikke noe egoistisk over hennes spiritualitet. En gruppe
av hennes legdominikanske søstre, som betraktet henne som sin leder,
konsulterte henne ofte og søkte hennes bønner. Et kvinnekloster som ble
grunnlagt i St. Paulus-klosteret i Kotor, som dominikanerbrødrene stilte til
rådighet, betraktet henne som sin grunnlegger på grunn av hennes bønner, selv
om hun aldri så stedet. Dette klosteret ble oppløst av de franske myndighetene
på begynnelsen av 1800-tallet.
Befolkningen i Kotor ga
hennes forbønner æren for at de ble reddet fra jordskjelv, pest og andre
ulykker. Spesielt gjaldt det den 9. august 1539, da den tyrkiske piraten
Khair-ed-Din Barbarossa erobret Herceg Novi (Castelnuovo) og angrep Kotor
sammen med sine sjørøvere. Folk løp til Hosanna for hjelp, og hun oppmuntret
dem til å slåss herosikk for å forhindre at byen falt i fiendehender. Etter
flere dagers beleiring måtte den tyrkiske flåten gi opp, og folket ga hennes
forbønner æren for at de ble berget. Denne seieren minnes i en latinsk
inskripsjon over byportene. En annen gang reddet Hosannas bønner dem fra
pesten.
Da Hosanna følte at døden
nærmet seg, ba hun om å bli brakt inn i kirken St. Paulus, og der mottok hun de
hellige sakramenter fra sin dominikanske skriftefar, Fra Tomo Bosco. Hun ba om
at Kristi lidelseshistorie fra Johannesevangeliet måtte bli lest. Etter 52 års
botsliv døde hun den 27. april 1565 i Kotor, 71 år gammel. Hennes uråtnede
legeme var i kirken St. Paulus til 1807, da den franske hæren gjorde kirken om
til et lager. Da ble hennes legeme flyttet til kirken St. Maria.
Folket æret henne som
helgen og henvendte seg til henne i sin nød. Hennes kult var populær både blant
ortodokse og latinske kristne, og synes å ha vært uavbrutt siden hennes død. I
1905 ble hennes saligkåringsprosess innledet i Kotor, og hun ble saligkåret den
21. desember 1927 ved at hennes kult ble stadfestet av pave Pius XI (1922-39).
Hennes minnedag er dødsdagen 27. april. Ved saligkåringen snakket paven om
hennes spesielle betydning i konteksten som gjaldt forbindelsene mellom øst- og
vestkirkene. Ved siden av Tryfon æres hun som skytshelgen for Kotor.
Sammen med den
salige Sibyllina
Biscossi av Padova gis Hosanna æren for å ha grunnlagt et apostolat
som forener kontemplasjon i avsondrethet med aktiv åndelig veiledning langs
dominikanske linjer. Hosanna var flink til å sy, og et korporale hun broderte,
er bevart i katedralen i Kotor. Hun arbeidet for mange fruer i Kotor, men alt
hun tjente, ble gitt til de fattige.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Butler (IV), Benedictines, Dorcy, Schauber/Schindler,
Index99, KIR, Patron Saints SQPN, Bautz, hbk.hr/katcrkva - Kompilasjon og
oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 2005-07-17 15:56
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/okotor
Ozana Kotorska
Ozana
Kotorska (pravo ime Kata Kosić), hrvatska blaženica (Relezi,
Crna Gora, 1493 – Kotor, 27. IV. 1565). Kao datum
rođenja navodi se 25. XI. 1493. Godine 1507. došla je u Kotor, gdje
je bila služavka u obitelju Buća. Odlučila je provesti život kao »zazidana
djevica« (rekluza), u prizemnoj isposničkoj ćeliji, kakve su se tada gradile uz
crkve, s jednim otvorom prema svetištu i drugim prema vani. U međuvremenu je
postala dominikanka trećoretkinja i dobila ime Ozana. Provela je sedam godina u
ćeliji uz kapelu sv. Bartola, a zatim se preselila u isposnicu uz crkvu sv.
Pavla, gdje je nastavila pokornički život. Nakon njezine smrti, dominikanci su
počeli širiti njezino štovanje u Italiji, Španjolskoj, Francuskoj, Njemačkoj i
Nizozemskoj. To je štovanje potvrdio papa Pio XI. 1927., pa je Ozana tako
postala prva hrvatska blaženica. Njezino neraspadnuto tijelo čuva se u crkvi
sv. Marije u Kotoru.
Citiranje:
Ozana Kotorska. Hrvatska
enciklopedija, mrežno izdanje. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2021.
Pristupljeno 3. 4. 2023.
<http://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=46007>.
SOURCE : https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=46007
