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The Heroic Act of Charity is a Catholic devotional practice. A Catholic who makes a Heroic Act of Charity offers the value of all prayers and good works they perform in their life, as well as any benefits they may receive after their death, for the benefit of the souls in purgatory .
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.
The Monastery of Saint Gertrude is an American monastery of Benedictine nuns near Cottonwood, Idaho. Founded by three nuns from St. Andrew's Abbey, Sarnen , Switzerland, who immigrated to the United States in 1882, it was designated the motherhouse for the community in 1909.
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 .
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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
The German guild of St. Gertrude was founded on the location for the present church in the 14th century. While the guild was created by German merchants, their Swedish counterparts were often invited to take part in its activities. For example, King Charles VIII was elected in the guild's building in 1448. The headquarters of the guild was ...
A view of St Gertrude's from Antonius Sanderus, Chorographia Sacra Brabantiae (1659) In 1206 Henry I, Duke of Brabant, founded a priory of Augustinian Canons Regular. In 1252 the priory church was given the dual function of a parish church. John I, Duke of Brabant, extended the priory's possessions in 1298. The priory became an abbey in 1449.