Blessed Henry Suso
![[Blessed Henry Suso]](sainth15.jpg "11kb jpg painting of 'Blessed Henry Suso', c.1636-1638, by Francisco de Zurbarán, oil on canvas, 209x154 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville, Spain")
- Also known as
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Amandus
Heinrich Seuse
Heinrich von Berg
Henrik Seuse
Servant of the Eternal Wisdom
- Memorial
- 23 January
- Profile
- German noble.
Dominican at age 13.
Mystic.
Prior at several houses.
Theological student of Meister Eckhart in Cologne from 1322 to 1325.
Taught in Constance.
Spent years imprisoned in a dungeon due to slander and his association with Meister Eckhart, a controversial figure in his day.
Great spiritual writer, using the name Amandus.
Noted preacher in Switzerland and the area of the Upper Rhine.
Spiritual advisor to Dominicans and the spiritual community called Gottesfreunde
Given to great austeries, he owned a half-length, tight-fitting, coarse undergarment equipped with 150 sharp brass nails, the points facing inward; he used it as his night shirt.
After 16 years of this, an angel appeared to him on Pentecost Sunday and whispered that God wanted him to discontinue this practice; he threw his shirt into the Rhine.
- Born
- 21 March 1295 at Uberlingen, Germany as Heinrich von Berg
- Died
- 25 January 1366 at Ulm, Germany
- Beatified
- 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI
- Prayers
- God of wisdom, you called Blessed Henry to follow your Son and gave him the grace to mortify his body.
May we follow the crucified Christ and so obtain his eternal consolation.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
- General Calendar of the Order of Preachers
- Representation
- Dominican with the Holy Name on his chest
- Works
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Little Book of the Eternal Wisdom (PDA versions)
The Thirst of God
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- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
Catholic Online
Kirken i Norge - norwegian
New Catholic Dictionary
Wikipedia
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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