Teresa Helena Higginson

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

Teresa Helena Higginson
Photograph of Teresa Helena Higginson
Servant of God
Born(1844-05-27)May 27, 1844
Holywell, Flintshire, U.K.
DiedMarch 15, 1905(1905-03-15) (aged 60)
Chudleigh, Devon, U.K.
Venerated inCatholic Church

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.[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. 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.com
  6. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool, Archives.


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