Ad
related to: saint gertrude
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which was built in the 11th century. It is dedicated to Saint Gertude, the patron saint of cats.
St Gertrude's Abbey, Leuven, a complex of former monastic buildings in Leuven, Belgium St. Gertrude's Cathedral , a church in Utrecht, Netherlands St. Gertrude's College, New Norcia , a former girls' school associated with the Benedictine Monastery in New Norcia, Western Australia
Both Mechthilde and Gertrude of Helfta became ardent devotees and promoters of Jesus' heart after it was the subject of many of their visions. The idea of hearing the heartbeat of God was very important to medieval saints who nurtured devotion to the Sacred Heart.
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.
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 Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (c. 1070–1117) Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), Abbess of Helfta; Saint Gertrude of Hamage (died 649), 7th century saint, founder of the convent Hamage near Douai; Saint Gertrude of Helfta or Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian, Patroness of the West Indies
Ad
related to: saint gertrude