--some levitating Saints: St Joseph of Cupertino (Mystic, born 17 June, 1603; died at Osimo 18 September, 1663; feast, 18 September.) reportedly levitated high in the air, for extended periods of more than an hour, on many occasions. St Teresa of Avila (born in Avila, Spain, March 28, 1515.She died in Alba, October 4, 1582.) claimed to have levitated at a height of about a foot and a half for an extended period somewhat less than an hour, in a state of mystical rapture. She called the experience a 'spiritual visitation'. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), levitation in states of ecstasy. Hadewijch of Antwerp Flemish Catholic mystica (first half 13th century) is said to have levitated in state of trance. Saint Philip of Neri (Born at Florence, Italy, 22 July, 1515; died 27 May, 1595.) supposedly went up several yards during prayer, even to the ceiling on occasion. Ignatius Loyola (Born in 1491 at the castle of Loyola above Azpeitia in Guipuscoa, Spain; died at Rome, 31 July, 1556.) is said to have not only raised several feet but became luminous in the process. Saint Robert de Palentin allegedly levitated eighteen or twenty inches. Saint Dunstan (Probably his birth dates from about the earliest years of the tenth century.) supposedly rose off the ground a little bit just before his death. St. John of the Cross (b. at Hontoveros, Old Castile,Spain 24 June, 1542; d. at Ubeda, Andalusia, 14 Dec., 1591) And, at the beginning of the twentieth century Gemma Galgani, a Passionist nun, reported levitating during rapture. Saint MartÃn de Porres (December 9, 1579--November 3, 1639) To help Martin serve the poor and needy, God blessed him with miraculous powers of bilocation, of being able to pass through closed doors (teleportation), and of levitation, according to Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > --Picture of St. Rita of Cascia being impaled in the forehead: > > http://www.st-rita.org/images/st_rita.jpg > > Her spiritual third eye, Ajna, the all seeing eye of intuition; > intriguing picture! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye >
