Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Biography of Saint Margareta Ebner


Blessed Margareta Ebner


Also known as

• Margaret, Margaretha, Margrete
• Mystic of Mödingen

Profile

Born wealthy. Received a thorough classical education at home. Dominican nun at Maria-Medingen, Germany convent in 1306. Dangerously ill from 1312 to 1322 during which time she was sent home to recover, and during which she began receiving visions, revelations and prophies. Visited by the Infant Christ. Spiritual student of Father Henry of Nördlingen from 1332 to her death. Their correspondence is the first collection of its kind in German. At his command she wrote a full account of her mystic experiences.

Born

c.1291 at Donauwörth, Bavaria, Germany

Died

20 July 1351 at Mödingen, Bavaria, Germany of natural causes

Beatified

• 24 February 1979 by Pope John Paul II (cultus confirmation)
• the first beatification of John Paul's pontificate

Reading

O God, source of all goodness, you enkindled within Blessed Margaret the fire of the Holy Spirit and drew her into the secrets of your divine love. By the help of her prayers and filled with that same Spirit may we come to you by the paths of Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. - General Calendar of the Order of Preachers

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