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Gertrude the Great or Gertrude of Helfta (January 6, 1256 – November 17, 1302) was a German Benedictine nun and mystic who was a member of the Monastery of Helfta.While herself a Benedictine, she also has strong ties to the Cistercian Order; her monastery in Helfta is currently occupied by nuns of the Cistercian Order.
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 .
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
The idea of hearing the heartbeat of God was very important to the medieval saints who nurtured this devotion. Both Mechtilde and Gertrude (d. 1302) perceived Jesus' heart as the breast of a mother, and considered the blood of Jesus in the Eucharist to be as nourishing as the milk a mother gives to feed her child. [7]
In 1989 Cekada left the SSPV [2] and he moved to West Chester, where he assisted with pastoral work at St. Gertrude the Great Traditional Roman Catholic Church. [4] Cekada was a well-known and convinced sedevacantist, [6] believing the popes of the Second Vatican Council to have been invalid pontiffs.
Despite the Tridentine Mass being supplanted by a new form of the Roman Rite Mass, some communities continued celebrating pre-conciliar rites or adopted them later. This includes priestly societies and religious institutes which use some pre-1970 edition of the Roman Missal or of a similar missal in communion with the Holy See.
Saint Gertrude of Helfta or Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian, Patroness of the West Indies Gertrude of Hohenberg (c. 1225–1281), Queen consort of Germany
The nuns of Helfta were highly educated and important works of mysticism survive from Mechthild's younger contemporaries, St Mechthild of Hackeborn and St Gertrude the Great. It is unclear when Mechthild died. 1282 is a commonly cited date, but some scholars believe she lived into the 1290s. [12]