Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully - Catholic Insight

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully - Catholic Insight

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 – 1433) was one of the many glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose lives are filled with suffering, often of an unimaginable intensity, but who suffer joyfully. She was a fifteen-year old Dutch girl, out skating one day, when she fell and broke one of her ribs. She was taken back to her bed to convalesce, a bed she was never again to leave. Lydwina developed mysterious symptoms, her body…