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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 ...
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".
Sacred Heart is a name used for many Catholic institutions, including schools, colleges, and hospitals in many countries. It is also the name of many Catholic parishes, and religious congregations. Peter Coudrin of France founded the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on 24 December 1800.
Venerated in. Eastern Orthodox Church [1] Catholic Church. Feast. 17 December. Saint Begga (also Begue, Beghe, Begge) (615 – 17 December 693) was the daughter of Pepin of Landen, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and his wife Itta of Metz. She is also the grandmother of Charles Martel, who is the grandfather of Charlemagne.
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.
Geltrude Caterina Comensoli, also known as Mother Geltrude (January 18, 1847 – February 18, 1903) is the Patron of Youth, Val Camonica and Relic Custodians. Her first attempt at religious life was curtailed by illness, and she took up work as a domestic. In 1882, with the encouragement of the Bishop of Bergamo, she founded the Institute of ...
Saint Adalsinda [a] (French: Adalsinde), [9] the youngest child of the family, entered Marchiennes Abbey in c. 653, with her mother and sisters. Later she went to the abbey at Hamay, where her sister Eusebia had become abbess in succession to their great-grandmother, Saint Gertrude. Gertrudes's widowed daughter, Gerberta –who was Adalbard's ...