Archduchess Magdalena of Austria
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Archduchess of Austria | |
Born | Innsbruck, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire | 14 August 1532
Died | 10 September 1590 Hall in Tirol, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire | (aged 58)
House | House of Habsburg |
Father | Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor |
Mother | Anne of Bohemia and Hungary |
Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Österreich; 14 August 1532 – 10 September 1590) was a co-founder and first abbess of the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift), born an archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. She is a Venerable in the Catholic Church.
Life
Early life
Archduchess Magdalena of Austria was born on 14 August 1531 as the sixth child and fourth daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) and his wife, born Princess Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547). She had a strict, religious upbringing with a heavy influence from Jesuits.
Life as an abbess
Archduchess Magdalena and her younger sister Margaret had long expressed a desire to remain unmarried and create a community of pious women, which their father had a difficult time accepting. After his death in 1564, Magdalena took a vow of celibacy and founded the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift) in Hall in Tirol, County of Tyrol, a place for like-minded women to lead a reclusive, pious and God-fearing lives under the supervision of the Society of Jesus.
She became the first abbess of the new convent where she was joined by her younger sisters Archduchesses Margaret (1536–1567) and Helena (1543–1574) of Austria. Magdalena died on 10 September 1590 at the age of 58 after a short sickness. She was buried in the Jesuit Church (Jesuitenkirche) in Hall in Tirol. In 1706, her remains were transferred to the church of the convent.
Veneration
Magdalena's cause was formally opened on 23 August 1905, granting her the title of Servant of God. Her spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 10 June 1914. She was later granted the title of Venerable.
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- 1532 births
- 1590 deaths
- Roman Catholic abbesses
- 16th-century House of Habsburg
- 16th-century Austrian women
- 16th-century Roman Catholic nuns
- Daughters of emperors
- Austrian princesses
- Bohemian princesses
- Hungarian princesses
- Children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Daughters of kings
- People from Innsbruck
- Austrian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns