Angela of Foligno

Over the past twenty years Angela of Foligno has risen from relative obscurity, at least in the English-speaking world, to a prominent rank among the most significant representatives of the Franciscan and Christian mystical tradition. Her scorching yet feminine narration of a dramatic love affair with the passionate suffering God-man strikes a chord in contemporary readers. The intensity of her account, flowing across every page like molten lava, has no match in Christian mystical literature.

This is the great truth about her life: In her, passion, instead of being sort of locked up behind doors and left in a closet, becomes completely devoted to God. Passion gets completely caught up in her love for God and in the giving of herself to God.
Thomas Merton