Beatrice of Nazareth was born in Tienen, Belgium in the year of 1200 located between Germany and France. She passed away on the 29th of July, in the year 1268, making it her feast day. In her lifetime, she became, and lived out to be at a young age, a cistercian nun, whom is a dutch speaking female member of the cistercian order, belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. She was the very first prose writer using an early dutch language, a mystic, where she practiced to become one with God through religious and spiritual meaning and was an author, who published a book called ‘Seven Ways of Holy Love’. Beatrice was born into a wealthy family and was the youngest of six children. At the age of seven, her mother died, and she was sent to live in a small religious community in the nearby town of Zoutleeuw, where she attended a local school. During her time in the small community, she …show more content…
In a similar way, she discusses what love is and how to achieve the highest level of love for yourself, God and to others. In YOUCAT, which is short for - Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church - is a contemporary expression of the Catholic faith. In it, it describes our contemporary version of love. It states“ What is love? Love is the free self-giving of the heart. To have a heart full of love means to be so pleased with something that one emerges from oneself and devotes oneself to it. “ Beatrice finding love in her heart from God, and gives it to him, devoting her life for and to him. And because of this and her faith in the Church, she grasps onto this idea, it being her reason and devotes her time and life to this love. And through the teachings of the Bible, and her book her passion of this new level of love, expresses it through her book, in which is formated to teach others of how to live and experience this