Ursula Micaela Morata ( Cartagena , Spain , 21 October 1628 – Alicante , Spain , 9 January 1703 ) was a nun , mystic , and founder of the convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Alicante, Spain .
18-504: [REDACTED] Look up morata in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Morata may refer to: People [ edit ] Álvaro Morata (born 1992), Spanish footballer Christian Joseph Morata Bautista (born 1981), Filipino singer, actor, host, and model Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526–1555), Italian classical scholar Ursula Micaela Morata (1628–1703), nun, mystic, and founder of
36-493: A well-to-do family, Morata was the youngest of thirteen brothers and sisters. Her father, Marco Aurelio Morata e Iscaya, was an Italian knight from Savoy . Her mother, Juana Garibaldo, from Madrid , was also of Italian ancestry. They died within three days of each other in 1632, when Morata was three years old. She was left in the care of her elder sister, Sebastiana. When she was four years old, she had her first mystical experience during an attack of smallpox that brought her to
54-590: The Younger , with both of whom she maintained a correspondence. In 1661, she was elected counselor and secretary of her religious community. In 1669, the first steps were taken to establish a convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares in the city of Alicante. The difficulties were many, and the foundation did not take place until 1672. The first residence was provisional, in a house not really appropriate for communitarian life. For that reason, work began on
72-491: The brink of death. In her own words, I was seized by a paroxysm in which I remained unconscious for more or less twenty-four hours. What joy my soul experienced during that time is impossible to describe. I found myself in an immense clarity and divine light that, while it offered no object or image to my sight, my faculties and senses so enjoyed that I thought I was already rapt up in glory. ( Autobiografía , Chapter I) Thus began her spiritual apprenticeship, in which she acquired
90-477: The construction of a convent and church, financed by donations from the people of Alicante and John of Austria the Younger, and under the protection of Charles II. The work was not completed until 1682. The convent received the title of Triumphs of the Blessed Sacrament , a name inspired by one of Sister Ursula's visions. Sister Ursula Micaela held the office of vicaress ( vicaria or deputy abbess) of
108-555: The convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Alicante, Spain Places [ edit ] Morata, Papua New Guinea , suburb of Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea Morata de Jalón , municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain Morata de Jiloca , municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain Morata de Tajuña , municipality located in
126-401: The convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Alicante, Spain Places [ edit ] Morata, Papua New Guinea , suburb of Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea Morata de Jalón , municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain Morata de Jiloca , municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain Morata de Tajuña , municipality located in
144-481: The convent until 1699, when she was elected abbess , an office she held until her death. These later experiences are not recorded in her Autobiography , since she left off writing it in 1684. After two years of painful illness, she died on 9 January 1703, at the age of 75. The fame of her sanctity and the social prestige she had acquired resulted in her body lying in state in the church for six days. The body remained incorrupt , warm and supple, for which reason it
162-449: The dominant ideas of the time as regards prayer , fasting and mortification , receiving through these practices other mystical experiences. Thanks to her sister, she learned to read and to write, an uncommon practice at the time, especially for women. In 1647, she took her religious vows in the convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares of Murcia , adopting the name Micaela. When plague ravaged Murcia in 1648, Sister Ursula Micaela nursed
180-429: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up morata in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Morata may refer to: People [ edit ] Álvaro Morata (born 1992), Spanish footballer Christian Joseph Morata Bautista (born 1981), Filipino singer, actor, host, and model Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526–1555), Italian classical scholar Ursula Micaela Morata (1628–1703), nun, mystic, and founder of
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234-457: The province of Madrid, Spain See also [ edit ] 14643 Morata , a main-belt asteroid Morada (disambiguation) Moratia Moretta Morita (disambiguation) Murata (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Morata . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
252-412: The province of Madrid, Spain See also [ edit ] 14643 Morata , a main-belt asteroid Morada (disambiguation) Moratia Moretta Morita (disambiguation) Murata (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Morata . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
270-407: The sick. In 1651 and 1653 the river Segura overflowed, forcing the community of nuns to abandon their convent and take refuge on Monte de los Ermitas. During this period, Sister Ursula Micaela experienced the dark night of the soul , a stage of spiritual crisis described by many mystics. In 1652, she was ordered by her confessor to write her autobiography. In 1653, at the end of her dark night of
288-425: The soul, she experienced transverberation of the heart in a manner similar to Saint Teresa of Ávila : I was shown in spirit an angel with a fiery dart, which he thrust into my heart. The pain and fire that I felt was so great that it seemed to penetrate my bones and I fell to the ground in a faint. But the angel prevented me from being hurt. I spent an hour in joy and suffering I cannot express, except to say that I
306-432: Was burned in flames of divine love. ( Autobiografía , Chapter VI) Sister Ursula Micaela had various supernatural experiences also found in other mystics: visions , locutions , miracles , extrasensory perception , etc. She was especially noted for bilocation , which even took her to other nations, and prophecy , which made her an oracle to whom people turned for advice, including Charles II of Spain and John of Austria
324-436: Was not interred. In 1742, Juan Elías Gómez de Terán, Bishop of Orihuela , finding it still intact, ordered that it be placed in a coffer without being buried. Thus the body has been conserved until the present time, still remaining incorrupt and supple. Sister Ursula Micaela's reputation for sanctity led José de la Torre y Orumbella, Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, to initiate an examination of her life and virtues in 1703 with
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