Lidwina

Lidwina (pia: Lydwine, Lydwid, Lidwid, Liduina) wa Schiedam, Uholanzi (1380 - 1433), alikuwa mwanamke maarufu kwa maisha ya kiroho, sala na karama zake. 

Tarehe 14 Machi 1890 Papa Leo XIII alithibitisha heshima ya mtakatifu ambayo Wakatoliki walimpa Lidwina tangu zamani.  

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 14 ApriliMartyrologium Romanum.

 Maisha 
Alipokuwa na umri wa miaka 15, Lidwina alianguka na kuvunjika ubavu akiwa anacheza penye barafu. Badala ya kupona, alizidi kulemaa maisha yake yote, mpaka akapooza mwili mzima isipokuwa mkono wa kushoto.Today some posit that Saint Lidwina is one of the first known multiple sclerosis patients and attribute her disability to the effects of the disease and her fall. Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 124.
 Kwa ajili ya uongofu wa wakosefu na wokovu wa watu alistahimili hayo yote hadi kifo chake, kwa kuamini maongozi ya Mungu https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/49350.

Lidwina alishika mfululizo saumu na sifa yake kama mtakatifu mponyaji ilizidi kuvuma. Maafisa wa mji wake, Schiedam, wametuachia tamko rasmi la kwamba aliacha kabisa kula na kupata usingizi.Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 125.

Lidwina alifariki akiwa na umri wa miaka 53. 

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

 Tanbihi 

Marejeo ya Kiswahili
 John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 131-132

 Viungo vya nje 

 http://my.homewithgod.com/israel/lidwina/ 
 Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (Patron Saint Index)  
 Saint Lydwine of Schiedam, by J.K. Huysmans (translated from the French by Agnes Hastings), 1923, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London. Reprinted 1979, TAN Books and Publishers, Rockford, Illinois, ISBN 0-89555-087-3 

Category:Waliozaliwa 1380
Category:Waliofariki 1433
Category:Mabikira
Category:Watakatifu wa Uholanzi