MARIA KUTTENMIEDL, HERMITESS

MARIA KUTTENMIEDL, HERMITESS - 2 FEBRUARY

MARIA KUTTENMIEDL, HERMITESS

On February 2, 1738, an eighty-year-old virgin died in Andechs, Germany, whose descent nobody knew. Regarding her origins, she informed the then pastor P. Bernhard, who later became abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Andechs, that she was the illegitimate daughter of a Saxon baron.

THE "SMOCK MAID"

The people only knew her under the name Kuttenmiedl [Kuttenmiadl], because her name was Maria and she did not wear the usual local costume, but was always dressed in a long, sack-like, rough robe.

A LIFE OF PENANCE

For more than 40 years she led a life of severe penance as regards to food, clothing, shelter, and camp. Her usual abode was a rock cave in the so-called Kienthal [Upper Kien Valley] near Andechs; she not only lived here in the summer, but also spent many winters there.

She had no bed but slept on the bare ground; the long sack-like robe was her only clothing. Only at the strict request of the pastor did she allow herself to be persuaded to use a bed during her last illness.

THE REASON FOR HER ASCETICISM

By being so harsh on herself she wished to make amends to the just God for her own sins and for the sins of her parents. When, in old age, she felt close to her dissolution, she assisted at Holy Mass with all devotion, received the Last Rites and went full of confidence and holy joy from this valley of tears - vulgo Kienthal, as P. Bernhard remarks in the Death Register - to the eternal hills of heavenly bliss. Her body rests in the Erling churchyard.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - 📷 Part of a page of the Ammersee Heimatblätter, July 1926, relating Kuttenmiedl's extraordinary story)

Comments

WELCOME

Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ...

FATIMA APPARITION - 13 AUGUST

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 13th of August Marian Feast Days WELCOME! FATIMA APPARITION - AUGUST 13 The Fatima Children “BUT IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH.” But in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me; it will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. THE AUGUST 13 EVENTS On August 13, the children were in jail at Ourem. The civil administrator threatened to boil them in oil if they did not tell the Lady’s secret. Though badly frightened, they could not think of disobeying our Lady. In disgust, the administrator finally freed them. A large number of people, not knowing that the children had been kidnapped, went to the Cova for the scheduled appearance of the Lady. At noon, there was a loud clap of thunder. Then, according to an eyewitness: “Right after the thunder came a flash, and immediately we all noticed a little cloud, very white, beautiful and bright,...

BL. RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR Richard Newport, alias Smith , was born in Northamptonshire and performed his studies abroad, partly in the college of Rheims (if he be the Richard Smith whom I find in the Douay diary sent to Rome in 1586) and partly in that of Rome, where he was made priest. From thence he was sent upon the English mission, and behaved himself in such a manner as justly to acquire the character of a laborious missionary; being withal remarkably successful in bringing home many strayed sheep to the fold of Christ, to which his apostolical way of living did not a little contribute. He was several times apprehended and cast into prison, and twice banished. His name occurs amongst those who were transported in 1606; at which time, we are told, he took that opportunity of making a pilgrimage to Rome, there to pour forth his prayers at the tombs of the apostles, in behalf of thi...

SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

Search This Blog