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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 ...
Gertrude of Nivelles (626–659), founded the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium Gertrude the Great (1256–1302), German Cistercian, mystic, and theologian Religious institutions and schools
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 Agricola (Agrele, Aregle), ascetic and Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (580) [14] [23] Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, Abbess of Nivelles, patroness of travellers (659) [3] [6] [14] [24] Saint Beccan of Rhum (677) [3] [6] [25] [note 4] Saint Withburga, Princess of East Anglia, hermitess whose holy well is at East Dereham (c. 743) [3 ...
Itta of Metz, O.S.B. (also Ida, Itte or Iduberga; 592–8 May 652) was the wife of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of Austrasia.After his death, she founded the Abbey of Nivelles, where she became a Colombanian nun along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles.
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 nuns.
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles was one of the patron saints of travellers and merchants. She was a Benedictine nun, the daughter of Pepin of Landen and the first abbess of Nivelles Abbey in what is now Belgium. She died in 659 and was venerated as a saint even in her lifetime for her holiness.
Gertrude Aubauer (born 1951), ... Gertrude the Great (1256 – c. 1302), also known as Saint Gertrude of Helfta, ... Gertrude of Nivelles ...