Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
St. Gertrude de Nivelles, from the Hours of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg by Simon Bening. In the Additum Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano, an addendum to the Vita Sanctae Gertrudis, there is a story about several events involving Irish monks led by Foillan that involve Gertrude and the Abbey of Nivelles. [28]
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.
Original file (1,239 × 1,752 pixels, file size: 78.93 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 184 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Hail Mary of Gold is a Roman Catholic Marian prayer attributed to Saint Gertrude the Great.. According to Saint Gertrude, the Virgin Mary stated that: "At the hour when the soul which has thus greeted me quits the body, I will appear to them in such splendid beauty that they will taste, to their great consolation, something of the joys of Paradise".
The traditional prayer in honor of the shoulder wound of Jesus calls to mind the wound that Jesus is said to have received carrying the cross on which he was crucified.It is variously attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux or to Saint Gertrude or Saint Mechtilde.
Nivelles Abbey was founded in 640 by the widow of Pepin of Landen, Itta of Metz, along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles, with the support of the bishop, Saint Amand. The abbey began as a community of nuns; they were joined later by Irish monks from Mont Saint-Quentin Abbey, sent by Abbot Foillan to give support to the nuns.
Saint Gertrude High School, an independent college for girls in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. St Gertrude New Church, Riga, a church in Riga, Latvia; St Gertrude Old Church, Riga, a church in Riga, Latvia; St Gertrude's Abbey, Leuven, a complex of former monastic buildings in Leuven, Belgium; St. Gertrude's Cathedral, a church in Utrecht, Netherlands
It was first built in 1368 by the city's tailors' guild as the "St.-Gertraud-, Urban- und Theobald-Kapelle vor dem Gubener Tor" (Chapel of St Gertrude, Saint Urban and Saint Theobald before the Gubener Gate) to provide a place of worship for merchants heading south and stopping off in the city. That building and its successor stood on what is ...