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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.
Saint Gertrude saving a house on fire, detail of a mural in the Crosier Monastery, Maastricht. Gertrude is the patron saint of the City of Nivelles. The towns of Geertruidenberg, Breda, and Bergen-op-Zoom in North Brabant, also are under her patronage. [20] Gertrude was also the patron saint of the Order of the Holy Cross (Crosiers or Crutched ...
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.
According to St. Gertrude (1256–1301), the Blessed Virgin Mary promised the following: "To any soul who faithfully prays the Three Hail Marys, I will appear at the hour of death in a splendor of beauty so extraordinary that it will fill the soul with heavenly consolation." [6] Madonna and Child with Angels, Duccio, 1282
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".
German Church, Stockholm, also known as St. Gertrude's Church; 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
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
16 November: Saint Gertrude the Great, virgin – Memorial (may be celebrated as a Feast for nuns) 19 November: Saint Mechtild , virgin – Optional Memorial 24 November: Saint Columban , abbot – Optional Memorial