• Thumbnail for Mechthild of Hackeborn
    use of these prayers in their monasteries, and women such as Marguerite d'Oyngt (d. 1310) and Mechthild of Hackeborn took it up. In the description of her...
    20 KB (2,505 words) - 07:01, 27 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mechthild of Magdeburg
    nuns of Helfta were highly educated and important works of mysticism survive from Mechthild's younger contemporaries, St Mechthild of Hackeborn and St...
    17 KB (1,697 words) - 13:09, 24 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gertrude the Great
    commentary, and to a somewhat lesser extent the two Mechthilds, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Mechthild of Hackeborn—made this devotion central to their mystical...
    22 KB (2,519 words) - 08:45, 15 April 2025
  • of Henry III, Count of Sayn Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1299), Cistercian and Christian mystic, saint Mechthild of Cleves [de] (d. 1309), duchess of...
    5 KB (545 words) - 07:23, 23 January 2025
  • 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...
    4 KB (395 words) - 12:24, 17 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Three Hail Marys
    Confraternity of Three Hail Marys to the Arch Confraternity of Three Hail Marys. Mechthild of Hackeborn of Hackeborn (1241–1299), a Cistercian nun of the convent...
    9 KB (1,100 words) - 05:49, 16 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Monastery of Helfta
    Helfta became the foremost centre of female mysticism [de] in Germany. Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great all lived...
    4 KB (433 words) - 14:34, 12 February 2025
  • Mechthild of Hackeborn: The Book of Special Grace, translated by Barbara Newman (2017, ISBN 080910637X) Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the...
    21 KB (2,538 words) - 13:44, 10 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Matilda of Tuscany
    whether Dante is referring to the Margravine, Mechthild of Magdeburg or Mechthild of Hackeborn is still a matter of dispute. In the fifteenth century, Matilda...
    126 KB (17,668 words) - 08:14, 7 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Matilda (name)
    (Spanish) Matilda of Ringelheim (968) Mechtildis of Edelstetten, Dießen, Andechs (1160) Mechthild of Magdeburg (1282/1294) Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1240/41 –...
    9 KB (1,066 words) - 16:51, 8 February 2025
  • women whose names are displayed on the handmade white tiles of the Heritage Floor as part of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party art installation (1979); there...
    267 KB (5,912 words) - 17:30, 4 May 2025
  • Barbara Newman (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    has explored figures such as Julian of Norwich, Heloise and Abelard, Thomas of Cantimpré, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Marguerite Porete, Henry Suso, and Guillaume...
    12 KB (870 words) - 07:00, 15 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for History of women in Germany
    Abbess of Gandersheim, Ava, Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, Herrad of Landsberg, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude...
    58 KB (6,773 words) - 23:55, 25 September 2024
  • Marguerite d'Oingt (of Mionnay) (c.1240–1306/1310) Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1241–1299) Christina von Stommeln (1242–1312) Angela of Foligno (1248–1309)...
    21 KB (2,542 words) - 18:46, 13 May 2025
  • children's writer, illustrator Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1207–c.1282/94), mystic, writing in Low German Mechthild of Hackeborn (1240/41–1298), religious writer...
    17 KB (1,979 words) - 19:53, 21 April 2025
  • Mechthilde of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great, Mystics, 1298 and 1302 22 Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and spiritual writer, 1963 23 Clement of Rome, Bishop...
    41 KB (4,805 words) - 21:33, 14 February 2025
  • second of six daughters born of her father's second marriage. She joined the association of the Company of the Daughters of Mary in the parish of San Massimo...
    8 KB (849 words) - 10:59, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bridget of Sweden
    founder of the Bridgettines. Outside Sweden, she was also known as the Princess of Nericia and was the mother of Catherine of Vadstena. Bridget is one of the...
    37 KB (4,285 words) - 22:47, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Margaret Mary Alacoque
    Margaret Mary Alacoque (category Visions of Jesus and Mary)
    of Jesus in its modern form. Alacoque was born in 1647 in L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France, now part of the commune of Verosvres, then in the Duchy of Burgundy...
    26 KB (3,131 words) - 19:02, 30 April 2025