{"id":34783,"date":"2017-09-17T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34783"},"modified":"2017-09-25T07:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:34:55","slug":"adrienne-von-speyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/adrienne-von-speyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrienne von Speyr"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A women not really known in the US is the Mystic and Theologian, Physician, Writer:\u00a0Adrienne von Speyr (20 September 1902 – 17 September 1967); she is known in theological circles as being a close associate to the Swiss theologian and priest, Hans Urs von Balthasar.<\/p>\n

On this date, the feast of Saint Hildegard von Bingen, von Speyr died. Some will say that Speyr’s devotion to Hildegard provided her with a fitting intercessor at the Throne of Grace at this key time in her mission. Both shared a similar vocation.<\/p>\n

Among the interesting things about Adrienne’s theological work is her 4 volume commentary on the Gospel of St John which she claimed St John dictated to her. Likewise, her volume, Book of All Saints<\/em>, is quite interesting. A book I have not read but that is recommended to me is\u00a0Matthew Sutton’s\u00a0Heaven Opens: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Balthasar once wrote of his friend,<\/p>\n

“In fact, on one occasion very soon after her conversion, she was driving home from her office, she suddenly saw a great light in front of her car (a pedestrian also jumped aside in fear, and Adrienne stopped) and heard a voice close by which gave the key to all that was to follow: Tu vivras au ciel et sur la terre\u00a0 (You shall live in heaven and on earth).\u201d<\/p>\n

Hans Urs von Balthasar, First Glance At Adrienne von Speyr<\/em><\/p>\n

What is interesting about Balthasar’s comment is a similar experience Saint Benedict had shortly before he died where, according to Saint Gregory the Great Benedict saw the whole world in a ray of light. Saints beget saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A women not really known in the US is the Mystic and Theologian, Physician, Writer:\u00a0Adrienne von Speyr (20 September 1902 – 17 September 1967); she is known in theological circles as being a close associate to the Swiss theologian and priest, Hans Urs von Balthasar. On this date, the feast of Saint Hildegard von Bingen, … Continue reading Adrienne von Speyr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32244,1812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34785,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34783\/revisions\/34785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}