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Little is known of the early life of Gertrude who was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1256, in Eisleben, Thuringia (within the Holy Roman Empire).At age five, [1] she entered the monastery school at St. Mary at Helfta (variously described both as Benedictine and as Cistercian), [2] under the direction of its abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn.
Gertrude of Hackeborn (1232–1292) was the abbess of the Benedictine convent of Helfta, near Eisleben in modern Germany. Gertrude was born in 1232 near Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt. She was a member of the Thuringian Hackeborn dynasty and elder sister of Mechtilde .
The monastery of Helfta is a Cistercian monastery of nuns in the city of Eisleben. [1] It was originally active between 1229 and 1545, [ 2 ] and was restored in 1999. [ 1 ] It is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (c. 1070–1117) Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), Abbess of Helfta; Saint Gertrude of Hamage (died 649), 7th century saint, founder of the convent Hamage near Douai; Saint Gertrude of Helfta or Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian, Patroness of the West Indies
Mechtilde of Hackeborn, OSB, also known as Mechtilde of Helfta (1240/1241 – 19 November 1298), was a Saxon Christian saint (from what is now Germany) and a Benedictine nun. She was famous for her musical talents, gifted with a beautiful voice. At the age of 50, Mechtilde went through a grave spiritual crisis, as well as physical suffering.
Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), abbess of the Benedictine convent of Helfta, near Eisleben in modern Germany; sometimes conflated with Gertrude the Great Sainte-Gertrude, Quebec , a sector of the city of Bécancour, Quebec, Canada
The Counts of Mansfeld in 1229 endowed a nunnery on the grounds of their castle, then built another monastery at Helfta near Eisleben, which was founded in 1258. Governed under either Benedictines or Cistercians, Helfta became known for its powerful and mystical abbesses, most of all Gertrude of Hackeborn, Gertrude the Great and Mechtild of ...
The visions of Jesus to Saint Gertrude the Great were referred to by Benedict XVI in a General Audience of October 6, 2010. On 27 January 1281, a few days before the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, towards the hour of Compline in the evening, the Lord with his illumination dispelled her deep anxiety.