Père Paul Lachance o.f.m.

Ses livres sont en Français, Anglais, Italie

PLachance@worldnet.att.net

Italian: Italien http://parousie.over-blog.fr/article-30690250-6.html

Il Libro della beata Angela da Foligno, trans. Sergio Andreoli (Ed. Paoline,1990);

Il libro dell’esperienza , anthology edited by Giovanni Pozzi based on the Assisi manuscript adopted by Ferré ( Milano, Adelphi, 2001).

The latter contains some of the best commentaries on Angela. Spanish: Espagnol

Angela de Foligno. Libro de la vida, trans. Teodoro H. Martin (Salamanca , Editiones Sigueme, 1991). BibliographiesAngela da Foligno e il suo culto. 1. Documenti a stampa e nel web (1497 ca.-2003), ed. by Sergio Andreoli, Emiliano Degl’Innocenti, Paul Lachance, Francesco Santi (Florence, Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini (2006).

An extensive annotated bibliography on Angela which contains a list of the available editions of the Latin and Italian texts produced from 1500 to today; studies dedicated to the history of the text; historical, literary, and spirituality studies; material related to the cult, devotion and contemporary readings of the Liber including those in music and theatre; status questiones, miscellaneous works and web sites

.Paul Lachance,“Recent Research on Angela of Foligno” in Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pieta, issue dedicated to Romana Guarnieri (Rome, 2005), 105-119.

ThesaurusThesaurus Angelae de Fulginio , ed. Claire Pluygers and Paul Tombeur, (Turnhout, Brepols, 2003). Congresses
Vita e spiritualità della Beata Angela da Foligno. Atti. ed. C. Schmitt. (Perugia,1987).
Angela da Foligno Terziaria Francescane, Atti. Ed. E. Menesto (Spoleto,1992).
L’experienza mistica della beata Angela da Foligno. Il liber: una lettura interreligiosa. Att. Ed. Pennacchini, (Assisi, 2001)
Angela da Foligno. Edith Stein. Due mistiche a confronto. Atti, (Foligno,2004).

Cristocentrismo nel “Liber” della Beata Angela. Atti. Ed. D. Alfonsi (Foligno, 2005).

Angela da Foligno nella ricerca universitaria.” 2006. Not yet published. Contains an important essay by Jacques Dalarun.

Sessions on Angela are held almost annually at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Translations

English: Angela of Foligno :Complete Works, ed. and trans. P. Lachance, o.f.m. ( New York: 1993). Angela of Foligno. Passionate Mystic of the Double Abyss, an anthology edited by Paul Lachance, o.f.m. (Hyde Park, N.Y. New City Press, 2006).
Angela of Foligno. Memorial. Selections, trans. John Cirignano with an introduction by Cristina Mazzoni (Cambridge. D.S. Brewer,1999).

The later contains an interpretive essay by Mazzoni and useful annotated reviews of contemporary essays on Angela from a mostly feminist perspective.

French: Français

Le livre d’Angèle de Foligno d’après les textes originaux, trans. Jean-François Godet, presentation by Thaddée Matura and Paul Lachance (Grenoble, Jerome Millon, 1995), likely the best translation currently available;

L’expérience de Dieu avec Angèle de Foligno, anthology edited by Paul Lachance (Montreal, Fides, 2001);

Le livre des visions et instructions de la bienheureuse Angèle de Foligno, trans. Ernest Hello (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1991, 10th edition; 1868), Hello’s brilliant translation, even if very free and based on faulty editions, catapulted Angela into contemporary French consciousness ;

Le livre de la Bienheureuse Soeur Angéle de Foligno du Tiers Ordre de S. François, trans. Paul Doncoeur (Paris. Librairie de l’Art Catholique, 1926);

Le livre de l’expérience des vrais fidèles, trans, M.-J Ferré (Paris, Edition

-Le livre desvisions et instructions de la bienheureuse Angèle de Foligno --

catapulted Angela's Book (75,000 copies, ten editions) into the consciousness of contemporary French culture. The novelist George Bernanos, the poet-philosopher George Bataille, the visionary theologian Teilhard de Chardin, as well as prominent French feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray quote her in their writings. Furthermore, a new, even if contested, critical edition, translations in all the major languages, a number of scientific congresses held in Italy, a flurry of anthologies, biographies, articles, and references in various publications have placed Angela at the
forefront of contemporary interest in mysticism. Angela was beatified on July 11, 1701 and her feast day is celebrated on January 4. Although often referred to as a saint, Angela has never been canonized. A commission is currently working on this project. Writings Il libro della beata Angela da Foligno, ed. L. Thier and A. Calufetti, (Grottaferrata,1985). This is the most recent attempt at a critical edition. It has been severely criticized and proposals have been made to come up with a new one.

s E. Droz, 1927).

Biography Almost nothing is known about the details and external circumstances of Angela’s life. Except for the date of her death, virtually all the information We have about her must be deduced or inferred from her Book. The first part Of this Book, the Memorial, was dictated to a Franciscan friar whom we only know as Bro. A. He was to serve as Angela’s confessor, scribe, as well as protagonist of her communications from God. Bro. A. not only scrupulously translated into Latin what Angela dictated to him in her Umbrian dialect (she was unlettered), but also, and in spite of repeated affirmations to the
contrary he, and perhaps other unnamed scribes or subsequent copyists, organized and reworked the text. The Memorial contains the thirty steps which Angela had told Bro. A. and her companion (referred to as M.) delineate the itinerary of her passionate love affair with the "suffering God-man” and how she was transformed and led her into the deep abysses of the Trinitarian life. The second part of the Book , the Instructions, some likely redacted by Bro. A. but most by anonymous disciples, show us Angela's role as a spiritual mother. It contains her teachings in the form of letters, exhortations, summaries of her spirituality, further visionary accounts, a testament, and an epilogue.

From the scant information about the external context of her life that can be gleaned from her Book, we do know that Angela was a married woman, had children and before her conversion lived a well-to-do and, likely. a conventional life-- even if in her eyes a very sinful one. What triggered her mid-life conversion, about 1285, is unknown. Certainly, it was aided by a dream in which St. Francis appeared to her. The Poverello was to become her spiritual guide, appearing to her several times and even, at one point, making the stunning declaration : "You are the only one born of me."

The first nineteen steps of the Memorial describe Angela's entrance into the way of penance, a season of purification through suffering. Set ablaze by then fire and intensity of Christ's love as revealed to her through increasingly vivid and focused visions of his passion and crucifixion, her one desire was to grow in amorous response by aligning her life with his, and, following the example of her model St. Francis, stripping herself of all her possessions and taking steps to become truly poor. Very early on in her conversion, her mother, husband, and sons died which she experienced as a relief. During this period, covering about six years, "Christ's faithful one" (as she is habitually referred to) also entered the Third Order of St. Francis and made a pilgrimage to Assisi during which she experienced a numinous and decisive experience of God.

The final eleven steps, condensed into seven so-called supplementary ones because of Bro. A.' s inability to accurately distinguish them from one another, describe the deepening of Angela's perception and mystical ("from within") experience of Christ's passion. A number of stunning Eucharistic visions are also recorded, one in which she sees the world "as pregnant with God." Even more
striking and indicative of the mystical heights which Angela had attained are the formless visions in which she perceived the attributes of God such as his beauty and goodness. What elevates Angela, however, to the ranks of the greatest mystics of the Christian tradition is what takes place in the final steps the Memorial . The sixth supplementary steps describes the "horrible darkness" of sharing in Christ's abandonment on the cross and the seventh her almost simultaneous propulsion to the summit of her spiritual journey--the great apophatic visions of God in, with, and beyond the divine darkness (via negativa) and her "inabyssation" in the depths of the Trinitarian life. As the oft-quoted locution from Instruction XXIII declares: God' s love for her had not been a hoax." The Memorial contains some of the
most excessive and volcanic pages in all of Christian mystical literature

Angèle de Foligno:Le Dossier ed. G. Barone and J. Dalarun (Rome, 1999).

Arcangeli, Tiziana. “Re-reading a Mis-nown and Misread Mystic: Angela da Foligno” in “Annali d’Italianistica” Women Mystic Writers, 13, ed. Dino Cervigni (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 41-78.

Brooke, Rosalind. “Angela of Foligno’s Image of St. Francis” in The Mirror of Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Burr, David. The Spiritual Franciscans: from Protest to Persecution in the Century after Francis of Assisi (University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania University Press, 2001) 337-343. Concerns Angela’s rapport with the Franciscan Spirituals.

Coakley, John. “Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno,” in Women, Men, Spiritual Power/ Female Saints & Their Male Collaborators (New York, Columbia University Press, 2006) 111-130.

Cazenave, Michel. Angéle de Foligno (Paris, Pymalion, 1998). One of the better contemporary transmissions of Angela’s journey.

Dalarun, Jacques. “Angèle-a-t-elle existé? In “Alla Signorina,” Mélanges offerts a Noelle de la Blanchardière, (Rome, 1955).

Ferré, M.J. “Les principales dates de la vie d’Angèle de Foligno, in Revue d’Histoire Franciscaine, 2 (1925).

Hollywood, Amy. “’Beautiful as a Wasp’; Angela of Foligno and Georges Bataille“ in Harvard Theological Review, 92 , 1999, 219-236; “Mysticism, Trauma, and Catastrophe in Angela of Foligno’s Book and Bataille’s Atheological Summa” in Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002) 60-88.

Lachance, Paul. The Spiritual Journey of the Blessed Angela of Foligno according to the Memorial of Frater A. (Rome, 1984). Il percorso spirituale di Angela da Foligno (Milano, 1991)Italian version (Milano, Edizione Francescane, 1991). The Spiritual Journey of Angela of Foligno (Toronto, Perigrina Publishing, 1990); “ ‘Celle qui ment’ (The One Who Lies):Angela of Foligno” in Studi Medievali December, 1995), award winning play about Angela performed in Paris and Rouen); L’esperienza suprema di unione con Dio di Angela da Foligno e paralleli con altre tradizioni religiose” in “L’experienza mistica della beata Angela. Il liber: una lettura intereligiosa. Op. cit.,117-149. An English summary can be found in New Theology Review. Vol 16, n.3, pp. 15-21. “Angela of Foligno” in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2005.

Lunghi, E. La passsione degli Umbri: crocifissi di legno in Valle Umbra tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, (Foligno 2000). Contains important iconographical data on Angela.

McGinn, Bernard. “Angela of Foligno” in The Flowering of Mysticism (New York, The Crossroad Publishing Company,1998) 142-151. ed. “Angela of Foligno” in The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism (N.Y. Random House, 2006) 374-378. The account of the sixth step given here is, according to McGinn, “a searing description of mystical dereliction.”

Mazzoni, Cristina. “Mysticism, Abjection, Transgression: Angela of Foligno and the Twentieth Century” in Mystics Quarterly 17, 1991, 61-70; “On the Unrepresentability of Woman’s Pleasure: Angela of Foligno and Jacques Lacan” in Gender an Text in the Later Middle Ages, ed. by Jance Chance (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996) 239-262; Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996); “How to Sift Flour, Wash Lettuce, and Serve Bread and Fish: Lessons from Angela of Foligno” in The Women in God’s Kitchen (New York, Continuum, 2005) 87-102.

Meany, Mary. “Angela of Foligno. A Eucharistic Model of Lay Sanctity” in Lay Sanctity. Medieval and Modern. Ed. Ann Astell, (Notre Dame Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), 61-76. “Destructuring and Restructuring of Identity” in Divine Representations. Postmodernism and Spirituality. Ed. Ann Astell (New York, Paulist Press, 1994) 7-62.

Mooney, Catherine M. “The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno’s Revelations “ in Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. ed. by E.A. Matter-J. Coakley, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) 34-63. “The Changing Fortunes of Angela of Foligno, Daughter, Mother and Wife” in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person. Ed. Rachel Fulton and Bruce W. Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) 56-67.

Morrison, Molly. “A Mystic’s Drama The Paschal Mystery in the Visions of Angela da Foligno, Italica 78, 1(2001) 36-52. “Connecting with the God-Man. Angela of Foligno’s Sensual Communion and Priestly Identity.” in Romance Language Annual, 10, 1993, 308-14; “Ingesting Bodily Filth. Defilement in the Spirituality of Angela of Foligno, Romance Quarterly, 50, 2003, 204-16.

O’Sullivan, Robin Anne, Model, Mirror and Memorial: Imitation of the Passion and the Anihilation of the Imagination in Angela da Foligno’s Liber and Marguerite Porete”s Mirouer des simples ames (Ph.D. diss. University of Chicago, 2002).

Peterson, Ingrid, “The Active Life and the Following of Christ” in Studies in Spirituality 10 (2000), pp. 125-141. “Images of the Crucified Christ in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno in That Others May Know and Live Essays in Honor of Zachary Hayes, ofm., ed, Michael Cusato, ofm (St. Bonaventure, N.Y., The Franciscan Institute, 1997)167-
192.

Petroff, Elizabeth. “ Writing the Body: Male and Female in the Writings of Marguerite d’Oingt, Angela of Foligno, and Umilta of Faenza” in Body and Soul; Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 205-224.

Poirel, Dominique. “Le Liber d’Angèle de Foligno: enquete sur un exemplar disparu,” in Revue d’histoire des textes,” XXXII, 2002, 224-263.

Sagnella, Mary Ann, “ Carnal Metaphors and Mystical Discourse in Angela da Foligno’s Liber” in Annali d’Italianistica 13 (1995), 79-90.

Schroeder, Joy. Sacred Space and Sacred Time in the Religious Experience of Angela of Foligno (Ph. D. diss.,University of Notre Dame, IN, 1999).

Slade, Carol. “Alterity in Union: The Mystical Experience of Angela of Foligno’ and Margery Kempe” in Religion and Literature 23.3, 1991, 109-126.

Tomkinson, Diane V. “In the Midst of the Trinity: Angela of Foligno’s Trinitarian Theology of Communion” (Ph.D.diss., Fordham University, 2004); “Angela of Foligno’s Spiral Pattern of Prayer.” in Franciscans at Prayer ed. by Timothy Johnson (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2007).

Underhill Evelyn, A Franciscan Mystic of the Thirteenth Century: the Blessed Angela of Foligno, in Franciscan Essays (1912, Ridgewood, N.J. Gregg Press, 1965); Two Mystics of the Church, (New York, Schocken, 1964); “Blessed Angela of Foligno,” in The Essentials of Mysticism (N.Y, E. P. Dutton, 1920).

Web Sites

Web sites Other Women’s Voices. http//home.infionline.nte/~ddiss. Contains very helpful annotated descriptions of many essays on Angela plus selected passages from her works.

http://www.sismelfirenze.it/mistica/it/mistica/ita/TutiStrumenti/fullTextAngela. Contains the entire critical edition of the Liber. Also the essay by Dalarun, “Angèle-a-t-elle existé.”

http:www.beataangeladafoligno.it. The web site of the Cenacolo della Beata Angela da Foligno

Influence

Likely because of its role in the internecine quarrel taking place at the time between the Franciscan Spirituals, of which she was set up as a champion, and those referred to as belonging to the Community, Angela's Book was initially viewed with suspicion and went underground. The only early mention occurs in the prologue to Ubertino of Casale's Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. This early eclipse notwithstanding, down through the ages various editions of the Book surfaced, merited the esteem, and  served as inspiration to an impressive number of saints, spiritual writers, theologians, and thinkers both inside and outside ecclesiastical circles. In the fifteenth century,for instance, Angela's writings enjoyed considerable success in the circles linked to the Observant Franciscans. It is likely that a translation of her Book ordered by Cardinal Francis Ximenes, an Observant Franciscan, found its way in the hands of St. Teresa of Avila who uses Angela's language to describe the trials of the sixth mansion in her Interior Castle. In the seventeenth century, others who were influenced and refer to Angela include St. Francis de Sales, St. Alphonsus Liguori , Pope Benedict XIV, Fenelon, Bossuet, Jean Jacques Olier. In the late nineteenth century, the brilliant, even if faulty, translation of the French philosopher Ernest Hello

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Père Roger Poudrier o.f.m.

Roger Poudrier,

franciscain, bibliste et écrivain,

est prédicateur de retraites paroissiales, religieuses et sacerdotales.

roger.poudrier@sympatico.ca

Miséricorde - Six cas particuliers Roger Poudrier Édition privée, Joliette, 2004, 104 pages	Le bienheureux Frédéric : d'après des témoins de sa vie et des extraits de ses lettres / Roger Poudrier Montréal : Médiaspaul, impression	Souffle de vie L'Esprit Saint dans la Bible Roger Poudrier Médiaspaul, 1997, 127 pages
Paraboles de Jésus, 2006. Roger Poudrie Médiaspaul : Prier sans cesse, 2003, Miséricorde, 2004,	PRIER SANS CESSE Auteur : POUDRIER ROGER Edité par Mediaspaul - Paru le 21/03/2003	L'IMPRESSIONNISME Auteur : POUEZARD ROGER Edité par Art et comedie - Paru le 22/01/2001
	Paraboles de Jésus, Toute brebis perdue sera retrouvée, Roger Poudrier, Éditions Médiaspaul, 2006, 264 pages,	Dieu m'a donné de quoi rire Roger Poudrier. Auteur: Poudrier, Roger. Éditeur: Montréal : Médiaspaul
Le Père sera tout en tous : l'universalité du salut / Roger Poudrier. Auteur: Poudrier, Roger. Éditeur: Montréal : Médiaspaul	L'insoumis de Nazareth Les controverses de Jésus avec les autorités Roger Poudrier. Auteur: Poudrier, Roger. Éditeur: Montréal : Médiaspaul	La joie d'être sauvé Roger Poudrier. Auteur: Poudrier, Roger. Éditeur: Montréal : Médiaspaul

 

Abbé Gilles Baril

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