Wife Mother and Mystic: Blessed Anna Maria Taigi

By Albert Bessieres and Albert Bessières

Book Overview

The story of Blessed Anna-Maria Taigi, a woman singled out at the age of twenty-one, to receive revelations from Our Lord and the Blessed Mother, which continued until her death. In her visions she... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089555058X
• ISBN13: 9780895550583
• Release Date: January 1952
• Publisher: TAN Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

her "sun" told her all

For the blessed Anna Maria Taigi, there were no secrets; there was before her a "golden globe which became a sun of matchless light; in this all things were revealed to her". This miraculous "sun" was with her for forty-seven years, until her death at age sixty-eight. People of all strata of society came to her for advice and healing, from the poverty stricken, to nobility, to the leaders of the church. She was a humble woman born in Sienna in 1769 "to a world in chaos". During her lifetime, Europe was in a state of constant upheaval, the church under siege, with some of the events during her lifetime being the French Revolution, Rome under oppressive French Directoire, and the imprisonment of Pope Pius VI. Anna Maria led an austere, simple life, with her seven children and husband Domenico, whose boisterous temperament contrasted with hers, and who was a servant at the Chigi palace. Domenico, as well as her daughter Sophie, are quoted extensively from their depositions after her death in this book. She renounced the ways of the world, and searched out the will of the Lord, and followed the advice to "always pull against the stream and never cease to resist one's own will". Her visions covered a wide span of time (she saw "black airships traversing the skies") though the book does not dwell on her future revelations, but mostly describes her day to day life, and how she helped the many who would ask for her healing and help. The book also has little insights into her personality, as when a domestic broke a bottle, Anna Maria consoled her by saying "It is nothing. We must, after all, feed the crockery-makers". Translated from the French, the book is also an interesting glimpse into life during a turbulent era, and important time in the history of the Catholic Church.