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About St. Mechtilde
1240/1241 – 1298 · Feast November 19 · Religious / Benedictine / Mystic
German Benedictine mystic (1240/41-1298), of noble Saxon family, sister of Abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn at Helfta; spiritual mother of St. Gertrude the Great, who recorded her revelations in the "Book of Special Grace." Dante places her in the earthly paradise (Purgatorio 28). Pre-Congregation cultus.
St. Mechtilde is the patron saint of Mystics, Benedictine Nuns and Sacred Heart Devotion.
