{"product_id":"saint-angela-of-foligno-the-woman-who-dared-to-become-a-saint-9798197147981","title":"Saint Angela of Foligno: The Woman Who Dared to Become a Saint","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Everly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Biblical Biography - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Woman Who Dared - And Died Afire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe found God. Then she lost Him. Then she found Him in the losing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet the saint the Church waited 709 years to canonize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela of Foligno was a widow, a mother, a sinner, and-by the judgment of her time-a heretic. She wrote no books, studied no theology in universities, and yet was called Magistra Theologorum-Teacher of Theologians-because her life became her doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe died before death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story of visions and ecstasy. It is a story of ash. Of silence. Of absence that becomes encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot fire. Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot rapture. Remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot \"I saw God.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I saw nothing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He is the dark.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And by dying.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The soul sees God in nothing, and both are He.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, heaven went silent. The visions stopped. The presence she once felt vanished. The Church she loved questioned her path. And the God she encountered in suffering seemed to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd still-she remained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the floor. In the no. In the silence. In the stripped-down place where only the self is left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, she discovered what she called perfect poverty: not the absence of possessions, but the absence of the \"I\" that clings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for you if: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou pray, but hear only silence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou love God, but feel abandoned by Him\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou once felt fire, but now live in dryness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou fear that emptiness means failure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou want holiness, but feel unqualified for it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about how to feel God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about how to remain His when you feel nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela's path will unsettle you. It will strip illusions. It will leave you in your own silence, your own loss, your own Foligno. But it will also reveal something deeper than feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot \"I Am\" as experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \"I Am\" as being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs is presence without sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs is God when God is not felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dare is simple: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are you still holding onto that keeps you from Him?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation is quieter: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStay. Remain. Do not leave the silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe promise is stark: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is. Even when He is not felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the theology of scars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the faith of remaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the woman who dared-and died afire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891790528663,"sku":"9798197147981","price":1097.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197147981.webp?v=1781184807","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/saint-angela-of-foligno-the-woman-who-dared-to-become-a-saint-9798197147981","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}