Fick följande lista av en vän - tänkte att den kunde vara ett inslag i en diskussion om "lydnad".
Listan nämner bara kvinnor - men det vore intressant att se en motsvarande lista med manliga helgon - eller har alla dessa varit "lydiga"?
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"Here's a list on "uppity women" (for those who aren't familiar with the idiom it means "women who don't obey well but instead do what they think is best").
First on my personal list has to be MARY MAGDALENE. Whoever heard of a woman in 1st Century Israel who traveled around with a group of men? Brock has written a wonderful book where she makes the point, which seems to be well supported by textual evidence, that Mary, along with Matthew, Thomas, Phillip and Bartholomew, seems to stand with authority in opposition to Peter, who is aligned with Andrew, James, and John. This seems, from Brock's analysis, to have been a controversy from the beginning with echoes even in the canonical gospels. And, the controversy continues even now. For example, although it is absolutely clear from all the gospels that Mary Magdalene is first at the tomb, on St. Peter's in Rome, emblazoned on the front are the words: "First witness to the resurrection."
Second, chronologically, would be JOANNA, the wife of Chusa who was Herod's steward. Can you imagine the controversy over the wife of such a prominant man who also traveled with Jesus and company. These women who traveled with Jesus and the male disciples "supported them out of their own means." Women financed Jesus' movement.
Third, MARTHA and MARY offered hospitality to Jesus and his disciples. I wonder whether 1st Century mores supported two single women having these men into their home? Mary was pretty "uppity" with Jesus, plainly calling him to task for not coming when they send word that Lazarus was sick. Later, as women (deacons, e.g.) were being forced out of liturgical roles,
CANONESSES continued to sing the office at various churches in and around Rome (see Joan Morris' "The Lady Was A Bishop").
It was a woman, SCHOLASTICA, who founded monasticism, not Benedict. He joined his sister's monastery before he founed his own.The BEGUINES seem to have been the first non-cloistered women to associate in communities, eventually hiring their own priests and erecting walls to protect themselves. Some of the foundresses of modern religious communities began as Beguines.
Perhaps no woman was ever as "uppity" as JOAN OF ARC.
CATHERINE OF SIENA was supposed to get married. She cut off her hair. Later she was "uppity" enough to write to the pope during the Avignon Papacy to tell him to go back to Rome. The Pope was not the only notable man which whom Catherine corresponded.
However, women we think of as "obedient" were not necessarily so: TERESA OF AVILA was going to be called to the Inquisition over her writings -- someone warned her and she left town before the summons could arrive. Doctor of the Church, she never stopped writing her truth.
CLARE OF ASSISI was not exactly obedient either -- she defied her father and bothers to join Francis of Assisi in his complete embrace of Gospel poverty. She received approval of her religious Rule only months before her death.
I think that it was MARY WARD who wanted to be a Jesuit, and attempted to found a "Jesuit" community of women -- not that they wanted her! Her community was disbanded.
THERESE OF LISIEUX wrote in her journal that she wanted to be a priest. She was determined to be in heaven (i.e., dead) by the age of 25 so that she would not have to be alive when she ought to have been ordained. She got her wish, having hidden the extent of her illness (tuberculosis) from her doctor. She too is a Doctor of the Church.
One modern woman who was uppity, and who would have relished the term, was TERESA BOWMAN -- an African American woman who became a Franciscan Sister of Perpectual Adoration -- she became famous as a singer (and preacher). I remember her on the television program 60 Minutes being interviewed: Interviewer: But women are not allowed to preach in the Catholic Church.Teresa: (with a twinkle in her eye) "I don't preach."A saint if there ever was one. I saw her a few montths before she died.
There are so many women who stand before us -- women who were true to the vocations that Gode planted in their hearts! Regrettably, some of them were killed for their convictions. However most of them were later recognized as the saints, and sometimes canonized Saints, that they are. "
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