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Archduchess Magdalena of Austria

Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Österreich; 14 August 1532 – 10 September 1590)[1] was a co-founder and first abbess of the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift), born an archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. She is a Venerable in the Catholic Church.[2]

Archduchess Magdalena of Austria
Born(1532-08-14)14 August 1532
Innsbruck, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire
Died10 September 1590(1590-09-10) (aged 58)
Hall in Tirol, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire
HouseHouse of Habsburg
FatherFerdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherAnne of Bohemia and Hungary
ReligionRoman Catholic

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Early life edit

Archduchess Magdalena of Austria was born on 14 August 1531 as the sixth child and fourth daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) and his wife, born Princess Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547). She had a strict, religious upbringing with a heavy influence from Jesuits.

Life as an abbess edit

 
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Archduchess Magdalena and her younger sister Margaret had long expressed a desire to remain unmarried and create a community of pious women, which their father had a difficult time accepting. After his death in 1564, Magdalena took a vow of celibacy and founded the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift) in Hall in Tirol, County of Tyrol, a place for like-minded women to lead a reclusive, pious and God-fearing lives under the supervision of the Society of Jesus.

She became the first abbess of the new convent where she was joined by her younger sisters Archduchesses Margaret (1536–1567) and Archduchess Helena of Austria (1543–1574).[3][4] Magdalena died on 10 September 1590 at the age of 58 after a short sickness. She was buried in the Jesuit Church (Jesuitenkirche) in Hall in Tirol. In 1706, her remains were transferred to the church of the convent.

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Magdalena's cause was formally opened on 23 August 1905, granting her the title of Servant of God. Her spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 10 June 1914. She was later granted the title of Venerable.[5]

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  1. ^ Profile on Darlene's Family Genealogy
  2. ^ "Magdalena of Austria | Eduard Habsburg". First Things. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  3. ^ Harald Tersch: Österreichische Selbstzeugnisse des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (1400–1650). Böhlau ed, Vienna 1998, p. 261.
  4. ^ Johann Jacob Staffler: Tirol und Vorarlberg: in 2 Theilen. Tirol und Vorarlberg, statistisch : mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen. vol. 1, Rauch, 1839, p. 512.
  5. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 139.
  6. ^ a b c d Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Joanna" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  7. ^ a b c d Priebatsch, Felix (1908), "Wladislaw II.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 54, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 688–696
  8. ^ a b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Philipp I. der Schöne von Oesterreich" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 112 – via Wikisource.
  9. ^ Boureau, Alain (1995). The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage. Translated by Cochrane, Lydia G. The University of Chicago Press. p. 96.
  10. ^ Noubel, P., ed. (1877). Revue de l'Agenais [Review of the Agenais]. Vol. 4. Société académique d'Agen. p. 497.
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