Teresa Helena Higginson
Photograph of Teresa Helena Higginson
Servant of God
Born(1844-05-27)27 May 1844
Holywell, Flintshire, U.K.
Died15 February 1905(1905-02-15) (aged 60)
Chudleigh, Devon, U.K.

Teresa Helena Higginson (27 May 1844 – 15 February 1905) was a British Roman Catholic mystic.

Life

Higginson was born in Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom in 1844 where her parents were staying whilst on pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Winefride.[1] Her father Robert Francis Higginson was a Catholic and his wife was a convert. Higginson went to a convent school in Nottingham, and became a schoolteacher at Bootle.[2]

During her life Higginson's hands and feet bled in a way known as stigmata,[1] she went into prayer trances that lasted days, and she "violently re-enacted" the scenes in the Stations of the Cross.[3]

Higginson died in Chudleigh and was declared a Servant of God in 1937.[4]

Legacy

Higginson was discussed as a possible candidate for canonization in 1928.[5] Many letters written by Higginson are in the archives at St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, with duplicates at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Teresa Helena Higginson, Amazon, Retrieved 24 November 2015
  2. ↑ Mary Heimann, Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Clarendon Press 1995): 150. ISBN 9780198205975
  3. ↑ Mary Heimann, Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Clarendon Press 1995): 43. ISBN 9780198205975
  4. ↑ Life story, TeresaHigginson.com, Retrieved 24 November 2015
  5. ↑ "Woman of Prayer-Trance Likely to be Made Saint" Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (21 November 1928): 10. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  6. ↑ Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool, Archives.


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