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Patronage. Geertruidenberg, gardeners, pilgrims, poor people, widows, cats, against rats, mice and pestilence. Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628 [3] – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles, now in Belgium.
Clergy. Archbishop. Jozef De Kesel. (Primate of Belgium) The Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which was built in the 11th century. It is dedicated to Saint Gertude, the patron saint of cats.
Gertrude the Great, OSB (or Saint Gertrude of Helfta; Italian: Santa Gertrude, German: Gertrud die Große von Helfta, Latin: Sancta Gertrudis; January 6, 1256 – November 17, 1302 [1]) was a German Benedictine nun and mystic from the monastery of Helfta. She is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church and figures in the General Roman ...
Saint Gertrude High School is an independent Catholic college preparatory day school for young women grades 9–12 in Richmond, Virginia.It was founded in 1922 by the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia, of Bristow Monastery, and is still owned and governed by the order, although the day-to-day operations are run by lay administrative and teaching staff.
Gertrude's Vita describes how Bishop Amandus came to Itta's home, "preaching the word of God. At the Lord's bidding, he asked whether she would build a monastery for herself and Christ's handmaid, Gertrude". [5] Itta founded Nivelles as a Benedictine monastery of nuns. It later became a double monastery, with one section for monks and another ...
June 18, 1979. The Monastery of Saint Gertrude is a Benedictine nunnery near Cottonwood, Idaho County, Idaho. Founded by three Benedictine nuns from St. Andrew's Abbey, Sarnen, Switzerland who immigrated in 1882, it was designated the motherhouse for the community in 1909. Its main building and chapel were listed on the National Register of ...
Gertrude McDermott. Mother Gertrude McDermott (1846–1940) was a member of the Order of St. Benedict from 1879 until her death on September 22, 1940. McDermott began her life's work on an Indian reservation in the Dakota Territory where she was a teacher as well as a friend and adviser to Sitting Bull. She went on to be the founder of several ...
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth and last novel in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert 's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during ...