Alberto Margoni

Angela Merici

The intuition of the secular spirituality. English translation by the Company of St Ursula of Malta

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The great figure of Angela Merici, woman for some faces revolutionay in sense the possibility of a new femine status stranger both to the monastery and the matrimonial life of the first ‘500, is

The great figure of Angela Merici, woman for some faces revolutionay in sense the possibility of a new femine status stranger both to the monastery and the matrimonial life of the first ‘500, is to the center of the attention of this book. Taking advantage of the most recent and characterized historical contributions, this work traces the biographical profile of the woman founder of that original secular institution which is the Company of St. Orsola, and analyses her charisma, also destined in the course of the centuries to give life to numerous religious institutes that, anywaty according to modality and developments much differentiate, to her are recalled. The text,also characterizing for scientific rigor and spiritual depth, aims to introduce in clear and effective way a woman who much part has had in the history of the Church and the society.