Into the Wardrobe

You can find more in english language at

http://www.catholic-forum.com/Saints/stl2r001.htm

and also at Narnia web site
http://www.narnia.it/lucia1.htm

Some old immages 1935 , about Beata Lucia
this immages are from FERRARA e from NARNI
like you can see

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"Your name is LIGHT because you are the daughter of the eternal light" - "Tuo nome Luce perche sei fiola de la eterna luce". In the recently discovered "Seven Revelations", written down by Sister Lucy herself, these beautiful words are said to have been spoken to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The mystery of her 39-year-long silencing is slowly beginning to clear. According to the young Israeli historian Tamar Herzig, Sister Lucia Brocadelli of Narnia and the Duke Ercole I d'Este of Ferrara were both central figures of the Savonarolan church reform movement. Girolamo Savonarola was excommunicated and burned in Florence on May 23, 1498. As long as Duke Ercole was alive not much could be done about either one of them. But as soon as the Duke died on January 24, 1505, Lucy was also immediately "eliminated" by being accused of fraud. It was claimed that she had simulated sanctity and fabricated her stigmata wounds; it is even probable that she was suspected of sorcery and tortured by the Inquisition. She became publicly completely discredited; her life and her name from then on was "prudently ignored". All references to her in the new editions of previous publications were carefully deleted.

In her "Seven Revelations", which she wrote down before her death, Jesus is described as speaking about her to the apostle Paul. "She [Sister Lucy of Narnia] has been greatly crucified by her false enemies. Some have broken her head, others the fingers of her hand, some have pulled her around and treated her badly, some have thrown her in the well, some have knocked out her teeth. And she has suffered all these things and great pain with true patience for my love".

Nobody remembered her any more - until she died two hours after midnight, on November 16, 1544. Then her funeral had to be delayed for three days because of a sudden and unexplainable flood of visitors; all wanting to pay her their last respects.

Four years later her body was found intact and placed in a glass urn. On 1710 March 26 she was declared Blessed by Pope Clement IX. On 1935 May 26 she solemnly returned to Narni which she had left in 1495, 440 years ago.

As you can see in the preceeding posting by fgiusepp.

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"Lucia of Narni (1476-1544) was the most famous Italian living saint of the early sixteenth century." So writes the Israeli historian Tamar Herzig in her well-documented 32-page-article, where she discusses the saints, the witches, and the heretics of the early Renaissance. She also describes the greatest witch hunter of those times, the author of the infamous "Hammer of Witches", Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, who, nevertheless, together with the Duke Ercole I d'Este of Ferrara, deeply respected and admired Sister Lucy, enthusiastically endorsing and promoting her in his other writings.

Dr. Tamar Herzig's article: "Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer's Ties with Italian Women Mystics" is printed in the Summer 2006 issue of the "Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft" journal (pp. 24-55). The journal is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press but this article fortunately is also available on the internet:
http://magic.pennpress.org/PennPress/jo ... leArt3.pdf .

On 14 April 1499 Sister Lucy of Narnia escaped from Viterbo and on May 7 she was met by the Duke Ercole I d'Este at the Ferrara city gates. Duchess Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter-in-law and the daughter of the Pope, left Rome on 6 January 1502 and made her state entry into Ferrara on February 2nd.

Duchess Lucrezia, at the request of Sister Lucy and Duke Ercole and with the help of her father, on 4 January 1502 also sent to Ferrara, "as a personal present from her to both of them", eleven prospective members for Sister Lucy's new community. Among them were seven nuns who had been Lucia's associates in Viterbo, two Sisters from Narni, and two other young girls, Lucia's relatives, who were not nuns. They had come to Rome on orders of the Pope and went to Ferrara reluctantly. All were met by the Duke himself a few days ahead of Lucrezia, but it is not clear how many of them there ultimately remained.

This - and the entire fascinating, at times even quite humorous, story of the last marriage of Lucrezia Borgia can be found in Dukes and Poets in Ferrara: A Study in the Poetry, Religion and Politics of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries - a 578-page-book by the British Dante scholar Edmund G. Gardner (esp. pp.364-423). Originally published in 1904 it must have been familiar to C.S. Lewis; reprinted in 1968 and in 1972 it should now be easily available at the most college libraries.

P.S. There is an article about Lucrezia's father at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/e ... 909589.stm which also includes her picture.

"As you know, this Friday, 16 November 2007, is the Feast of Blessed Lucy of Narnia. At 10 o'clock in the morning, a special prayer service (a Mass) will celebrated in her honour (by the Bishop of Narni and Terni ) at the 11th-century cathedral of San Giovenale in Narni, where her body rests.

The month of November has always a special significance for all the Narnians of the World. November 16th is the Feast of the Blessed Lucy, on 2 November 1935 Lucy Barfield was born.

And C.S. Lewis himself was born on 29 November 1898 and died on 22 November 1963."