Wendy Beckett

Sister Wendy Beckett ( born February 25, 1930) is a South African-born, living in consecrated virginity British hermit who became in the 1990s by an acclaimed documentary series of the BBC art history fame.

Life

Wendy Beckett was born in South Africa and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, on. In 1946 she joined the Order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in order to become a nun. The Order sent at the beginning of her novitiate to England, where she started at St Anne 's College, Oxford with the study, from which she graduated with a Bachelor with honors in English literature. Outside of her academic work, she lived in a monastery, which adhered strictly to a vow of silence.

Your training as a teacher at a college in Liverpool she graduated in 1954 with a diploma. She then returned to South Africa to teach at Notre Dame Convent in Constantia, Cape Town, girls in English and Latin. When the monastery was closed in 1967, she moved to Johannesburg to hold at Witwatersrand University lectures. Health problems forced in 1970 to abandon their teaching and to return to England, where she lived in a Carmelite convent. For several years she translated high medieval Latin manuscripts before 1980 her favorite subject, the art was dedicated to.

After she received the 1970 papal permission to live as a consecrated virgin, allowed her the Order, henceforth under the protection of the Carmelite nuns in their convent in Quidenham (Norfolk ), the East of England to lead a Eremitinnenleben. Your contemplative life takes place in a trailer on the grounds of the monastery. Except for occasional visits to the Prioress of the Carmelites or a nun who provides them with the necessities of life, she has her life totally to the monastic solitude and prayer prescribed, except for two hours of daily work.

Publications

Sister Wendy's reflections on Saint Paul in art in 1980 at St Paul's, London, on the occasion of the Year of St. Paul published. In May 2009, published in London Encounters with God: In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary (ISBN 978-0826441782 ), published after a pilgrimage to the oldest Byzantine icons, which had survived the iconoclasm.

Publications in German language (selection)

  • Images for Peace: Thoughts ( translated by Hans -Ulrich Möhring ); Würzburg 2006; ISBN 978-3-88189-614-6
  • The history of painting: 8 centuries in 455 masterpieces ( translated by Sebastian Viehbahn ); Cologne 2004; ISBN 3-89893-387-3
  • Max Beckmann: the search for the I ( translator's from the English by Stephan Wackwitz ); Munich 1997; ISBN 3-7913-1793-8
  • Sister Wendy's History of Art ( s) ( translated by Manfred Allié ); Cologne, 1997; ISBN 3770140818

Documentary

  • Sister Wendy's Odyssey (1992 )
  • Sister Wendy's Grand Tour ( 1997)
  • Sister Wendy 's Story of Painting (1997)
  • Sister Wendy's American Collection (2001)

Other

Audio guide for visitors to the Sistine Chapel under the name:

  • Sister Wendy's Sistine Chapel Artineraries Tour ( 2006)

Musical

  • Postcards From God: The Sister Wendy Musical was written by Marcus Reeves and Beccy Smith, listed in the Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End in 2007.
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