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She was the reigning abbess of Nonnberg in Salzburg from 1921 until her death in 1949. [1] During her reign, Maria von Trapp entered the abbey as a postulant. Lütz is the basis for the Mother Abbess character in The Sound of Music .
Montserrat Casas i Soldevila (1933 – 16 May 2024) was a Spanish Catalan Roman Catholic Poor Clare nun, abbess of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona since 2013 until her death in 2024.
Dar Lugdach (also Darlugdach died c. 525/527) was the immediate successor of Brigid of Kildare as abbess of Kildare, and is recognised as a saint. She is recorded as having died one year to the day after Brigid, and shares the same feast day as the more famous abbess. Little is known of her family history. [1]
The first to make this change was the Abbey of Quedlinburg, whose last Catholic Abbess died in 1514. [1] These are collegiate foundations, which provide a home and an income for unmarried ladies, generally of noble birth, called canonesses ( German : Kanonissinen ), or more usually, Stiftsdamen or Kapitularinnen .
In the calendar approved for formerly Anglican Personal Ordinariate and Pastoral Provision parishes in the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Saint Hilda is celebrated on 23 June, together with those of Saint Ethelreda, Abbess of Ely (died 679), and Saint Mildred, Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet (died ca. 700).
Rusticula (c. 556 – 11 August 632), also called Marcia, was the abbess of Saint-Jean d'Arles from 575 until her death. Heiress of a wealthy family, she was abducted as a child before being brought to the abbey. In 613, she was arrested and accused of being part of a plot against King Chlothar II but was ultimately freed. She was treated as a ...
Jerónima de la Asunción, O.S.C. (Spanish: Jerónima de la Asunción García Yánez y De La Fuente; 9 May 1555 – 22 October 1630) was a Spanish Catholic nun and abbess who founded the Real Monasterio de Santa Clara (Royal Monastery of Saint Clare) in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.
After her mother's death, which her fellow nuns elected her, now twenty-five years old, as their abbess. [4] Though rules required the abbess to be changed every three years, Mary remained effectively in charge of the monastery until her death, except for a three-year sabbatical in her fifties. [5]