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	Federation of St. Gertrude - About St. Gertrude
		Saint Gertrude was born in Germany on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1256.
		Gertrude's mystical prayer is Christ-centered and the humanity of Christ is imaged as the Sacred Heart, the divine treasury of grace.
		The Feast of St. Gertrude was extended to the universal Church by Clement XII in 1738 and today is celebrated on November 16, the date of her death in 1301 or 1302.
	www.federationofstgertrude.org /Gertrude.htm (1280 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Gertrude the Great
		Gertrude was confided to the care of St. Mechtilde, mistress of the alumnate and sister of the Abbess Gertrude.
		Her boundless charity embraced rich and poor, learned and simple, the monarch on his throne and the peasant in the field; it was manifested in tender sympathy towards the souls in purgatory, in a great yearning for the perfection of souls consecrated to God.
		Her mysticism is that of all the great contemplative workers of the Benedictine Order from St.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06534a.htm (1222 words)

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		Gertrude is believed to have been born January 6, 1256.
		There is occasionally confusion between this Gertrude and Gertrude of Hackeborn who was the abbess at Helfta at that time.
		Gertrude's exterior life was the same as the other nun's.
	www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/g/gertrude_the_great.txt (417 words)

	Gertrude the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gertrude the Great (January 6, 1256–November 17, 1301) was a German Benedictine and mystic writer.
		Gertrude was born January 6, 1256, in Eisleben, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire).
		She is properly known as Saint Gertrude for, although never formally canonized, she was equipollently canonized in 1677 by Pope Clement XII when he inserted her name in the Roman Martyrology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gertrude_the_Great (479 words)

	Saint Gertrude the Great
		Saint Gertrude the Great (1263-1302) was a 13th-century German mystic.
		Saint Gertrude was revered as a great scholar, and traditionally beloved by German families, who invoked her aid for educational endeavors.
		She took the religious name of her favorite saint, Gertrude, and when the school in Richmond was established, her family gave the money to build the convent on Stuart Avenue.
	www.saintgertrude.org /about/saintg.htm (418 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gertrude of Hackeborn
		Gertrude was a model abbess, remarkable for her piety as well as prudent direction of her nuns.
		About a year and a half before her death, the abbess was seized with apoplexy, and during her sickness gave to all her nuns an example of heroic patience and resignation to the will of God.
		She was born more than 20 years before Gertrude "the Great", who lived as an ordinary nun in the same convent.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06533b.htm (265 words)

	St. Gertrude the Great
		The monastery was at that time governed by the saintly and enlightened Abbess Gertrude of Hackerborn, under whose rule it prospered exceedingly, both in monastic observance and in that intellectual activity which St. Lioba and her Anglo-Saxon nuns had transmitted to their foundations in Germany.
		Thus early had been formed between Gertrude and Mechtilde the bond of an intimacy which deepened and strengthened with time, and gave the latter saint a prepondering influence over the former.
		Her mysticism is that of all the great contemplative workers of the Benedictine Order from St. Gregory to Blosius.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/06534A.htm (1279 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - St.Gertrude The Great, Abbess (FEAST DAY: NOVEMBER 16th)
		Saint Gertrude, The Great was the first Saint in the "Middle Ages" who was priviledged to receive many Visions of Jesus Christ, specially visions of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus".
		GERTRUDE was born in the year 1256 at Eisleben in Germany, of a noble Saxon family, and placed at the age of five for education in the Benedictine abbey of Helfta in Saxony.
		It is all on "The Life of Saint Gertrude, The Great and it is even older than "The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude, The Great and it is in PDF Format.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=11792 (860 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : November 16, 2005 : Margaret of Scotland; Gertrude
		Gertrude, a Benedictine nun of the monastery of Helfta, in Saxony, is one of the great mystics of the Middle Ages.
		Gertrude the Great, a Cistercian nun, is one of the most lovable German saints from medieval times, and through her writings she will remain for all ages a guide to the interior life.
		She was born in 1256 at Eisleben and at the age of five taken to the convent at Rossdorf, where Gertrude of Hackeborn was abbess.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-11-16 (1045 words)

	SFT - November 2006 - St. Gertrude The Great - October 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Gertrude was just five years old, she was entrusted to the care of the Benedictine Abbey of Helfta in Saxony.
		When Gertrude was 25 years old, her uneventful monastic life changed.
		Gertrude is also known for her devotion to the Sacred Heart as an image of Christ's humanity.
	www.spirituality.org /is/136/saint.asp (292 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- Saint of the Day
		When Mechtildis was seven, she went with her mother to visit Mechtildis' sister, Gertrude, who was a nun in the Benedictine convent at Rossdorf.
		Soon after, Gertrude was elected abbess and she saw to it that her sister received an excellent education.
		Gertrude's writings were used 500 years later to help spread devotion to the Sacred Heart and frequent reception of Communion, to support the work of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2000-11-10/00cn1110f2.htm (471 words)

	St Gertrude
		St Gertrude was of an illustrious family, born at Eisleben, or Islebe, in Upper Saxony, and sister to St. Mechtildes.
		At five years of age she was offered to God in the Benedictine nunnery of Rodalsdorf, and at thirty was chosen abbess of that house in 1251; and the year following was obliged to take upon her the government of the monastery of Heldelfs, to which she removed with her nuns.
		The last sickness of St. Gertrude seemed rather a languishing of divine love than a natural fever; so abundantly did her soul enjoy in it the sweetest comforts and presence of the Holy Ghost.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/GERTRUDE.htm (800 words)

	November 16 Saints of the Day
		Benedictine and mystic writer; born in Germany, died at Helfta, near Eisleben, Saxony, was one of the great mystics of the 13th century.
		Gertrude, a Benedictine nun in Helfta (Saxony), Together with her friend and teacher St. Mechtild, she practiced a spirituality called "nuptial mysticism," that is, she came to see herself as the bride of Christ.
		Gertrude lived the rhythm of the liturgy, where she found Christ.
	religion-cults.com /saints/november16.htm (573 words)

	St Gertrude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a young nun, Gertrude continued her studies, but the extensive reading that she did was mostly nonreligious.
		Fear not." From that day on, Sister Gertrude was "converted" from a life of religious mediocrity to one of ardent pursuit of union with God.
		Devotion to the Sacred Heart was strong at Helfta Abbey, and Gertrude did much to foster it.
	home.att.net /~dgerda/st_gertrude.htm (443 words)

	St Gertrude the Great - had confidence in Our Lord's love and mercy - dearly loved by Jesus for her purity and virtues
		Gertrude was the herald of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus—that sacred cult which has become so dear and which has proved a fountain of consolation and graces to millions of Christians.
		Gertrude had won not only the Heart of God, but the wonderful charms and innocence of her refined disposition soon made her a favorite also among the pious sisterhood.
		Gertrude’s life became daily more supernatural; at times she received Divine directions and profound illuminations, whose inspiration seemed to carry her spirit into the fathomless depths of the Divinity; again she was transported into heaven to anticipate its delights, to enjoy its beauty.
	www.tanbooks.com /doct/gertrude_great.htm (6427 words)

	St Gertrude
		St Gertrude was born in Eisleben in central Germany on 6th January 1256, and died at Helfta, only three miles away, in about 1302.
		St Gertrude's great importance lies in the influence that her writings had in helping to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart (though it was not called by this name until the devotion was revealed to St Margaret Mary Alocoque in the 1670s).
		St Gertrude was "the Great" because of her single-hearted love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the souls in purgatory.
	www.rc.net /southwark/ramsgate/StGertrude.htm (795 words)

	MTEP -- Saint Gertrude the Great
		Gertrude is inseparably associated with the devotion to the Sacred Heart.
		On his own feast day, St John appeared and placed Gertrude near the wounded side of the Savior, where she could hear the pulsations of the Sacred Heart.
		Saint Gertrude was "the Great" because of her single-hearted love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the souls in purgatory.
	www.mtep.com /stgertrude.htm (1057 words)

	40 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John Raymond St. Gertrude the Great was born in Germany on January 6,1256 and died on November 17 in 1301 or 1302.
		After this vision Gertrude turned from her secular studies to the study of the Bible and theological writings.
		A Prayer by St. Gertrude O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love.
	www.monksofadoration.org /40.html (301 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 16
		Saint Gertrude was probably an orphan because at age five she was received by the Cistercian nuns of Helfta and placed under the care of Saint Mechtilde (see below) of Hackeborn, mistress of novices.
		In art Saint Gertrude is depicted as a Cistercian (white) abbess wearing seven rings on her right hand and holding a heart with the figure of Christ in her left.
		Saint Mechtilde, sister of abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn, was the mistress of novices of the Cistercian convent at Helfta Castle in Saxony.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1116.htm (3843 words)

	Saints - Individual Biographies - page 2
		By St. Gertrude the Great and the religious of her monastery.
		Moreover, the Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great actually open a window onto Heaven, where we can see the specific ways in which prayer, good works and liturgical celebrations on earth have very definite effects in Heaven—among the Saints and Angels and even with God Himself.
		Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich.
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	Gertrud of Helfta
		Nothing is known about Gertrud's family nor where she was born; the fact that there is no reference to her family in the monastic archives is unusual.
		When she was a teen, Gertrud became a nun, but continued her liberal studies in Latin and rhetoric.
		Both of Gertrud's extant works are unusual among the writings of nuns in the 1200s and 1300s in that there is no suggestion of a male influence --- confessor, editor, etc. The voices we hear, even in those parts of Legatus divinae pietatis that were not written by Gertrud herself, are solely women's voices.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/gertrud.html (4488 words)

	North Side: People: Gertrude Stein: Forgotten or Unknown
		But all her work has been read around the world, and while some high critics have acclaimed it the acme of futuristic greatness, others have complained they didn't know what she was talking about and neither did Gertrude.
		The old house where she lived has since been torn down and the family who now inhabit the site, yesterday were unaware that the great Gertrude Stein had once lived there.
		When little Gertrude and her family left Pittsburgh, they were, it appears, promptly forgotten.
	www.clpgh.org /exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n101c.html (703 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of unknown parentage, St. Gertrude was placed in the convent of Helfta, near Eisleben, Saxony, at the age of five.
		With the aid of her friend and teacher, Mechtilde of Hackeborn, Gertrude studied the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.
		It, with the Herald of God's Loving-kindness (of which Gertrude wrote one book; the remainder was based on a disciple's notes), became a popular devotional book and is classified as an expression of nuptial mysticism, in which Christ is the bridegroom.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/gertrudegr.html (227 words)

	Christian Sisters Page
		Saint Gertrude was born January 6, 1256 in Germany.
		Gertrude was not very pious as a nun.
		Gertrude is one of the leading women religious writers of the late 13th century.
	www.sistersofembracement.org /Chpgertrude.htm (639 words)

	St. Gertrude the Great
		Gertrude committed to writing many of her mystical experiences in the book commonly called the "Revelations of St. Gertrude." Her piety focused on the humanity of our Lord, and in this she showed the strong influence of the Christ-centered St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the famous Cistercian monk.
		St. Gertrude desired that God might be for us "all in all".
		If we seek to make Him so, according to our own graces, then we will glorify Him not only through the Mass but also through some of those nonliturgical devotions that keep us alive to His constant presence.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id267.htm (642 words)

	Prayers to St. Gertrude the Great
		She is a very powerful, favored saint of God who answers those prayers we all have deep within us; those unspoken and just felt---prayers that come from the deepest recesses of our souls that cry out for help louder than any inadequate words of petition we could pray.
		Gertrude knew that my soul longed more for spiritual and emotional healing than physical healing, even though physical healing was my prayerful petition.
		O most chaste Virgin Mary, I beseech thee by that unspotted purity wherewith thou didst prepare for the Son of God a dwelling of delight in thy virginal womb, that by thine intercession I may be cleansed by every stain of sin.
	www.2heartsnetwork.org /Gertrude.htm (1101 words)

	Gertrude Stein, The Great Great Grand MF of Rap?: Four Saints in Three Acts and the Hip Hop/Rap/Spoken Word Aesthetic ...
		Obviously, Gertrude Stein did not enjoy the technology rap artists and DJ’s do today, yet she achieves a similar effect throughout Four Saints using words and the placement and timing of words to collage, scratch, sample, and backspin just like the rappers of today.
		While Gertrude Stein most likely would not be characterized as a “microphone controller,” an early epithet for skilled rap artists, she would certainly qualify as a “rhyme animal” (76), yet another term for a rapper with chops.
		Peterson points out the diverse immigrant populations in the neighborhoods of Baltimore, Maryland, where Gertrude Stein lived from 1892 to 1893 with her aunt and uncle and later with her brother Leo and friend Emma Lootz, from 1897 to early 1902 while she attended Johns Hopkins Medical School.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/spring_2003/mills.htm (4012 words)

	The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude The Great. INTRODUCTION.
		And of this spirit St. Gertrude is the perfect realization; a Pax vobiscum is breathed into the soul in every revelation and in every action of that greatest of Saints.
		If it be objected that the frequent embraces of love which she received from her Spouse are too familiar a token of tenderness from a God to His creature, let us remember that He permitted Magdalen to kiss His feet, and the beloved Apostle to lie upon His bosom.
		A loving heart will always be a thankful heart; and so the continual incense of thanksgiving which ascended from the heart of Gertrude before the Eternal Throne was but the fragrant aroma of the love which burned daily deeper and brighter within her.
	my.homewithgod.com /gertrude/introduction (1880 words)

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