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Lydwina
was born in Holland in the fourteenth century. Her father was
a poor nobleman and her mother a commoner. She was a beautiful
young girl but prayed that she be less so. Her prayers were
answered when she had a skating accident that broke her rib
and puntured her flesh. She developed gangrene as well as a
host of other ailments, including headaches, vomiting, fever,
thirst, bedsores, toothaches, spasms of the muscles, blindness,
neuritis and eventually the stigmata. She became a mystic and
was prone to visions which her biographer called “The
gift of television.” This “gift” was perceived
by others as demonic possession and priests were sent to test
her. She lived her last nineteen years eating only the eucharist
and eventually died by choking on her own phlegm. Lydwina is
also the patron of roller skating and sick people;
and she’s invoked against bodily ills and prolonged suffering.
Her feast day is April 14. |
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