How to bridge Spring Application Context events to an other context

I have a Spring web application with two contexts: one (applicationContext) built by ContextLoaderListener and a second (webContext) built by DispatcherServlet.

Within the applicationContext is a bean (org.springframework.security.authentication.DefaultAuthenticationEventPublisher) that fires spring context events.

But the receiver for the event is defined in the webContext. And that receiver did not get the event. (If put the receiver for test purpose in the applicationContext then it get the event, but I can not do this, because I need the webContexts for its functionality.)

So my question is, how to bridges the events from the applicationContext to webContext?