BL. JUTTA OF HEILIGENTHAL, ABBESS

BL. JUTTA OF HEILIGENTHAL, ABBESS - 29 NOVEMBER

BL. JUTTA OF HEILIGENTHAL, ABBESS

Jutta (Julitta) was the first abbess at the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenthal, which was founded in 1234. She was born around 1200 in Franconia, South Germany.

She and a group of like-minded young ladies obtained permission from the bishop of Würzburg to found the Cistercian convent of Heiligenthal near Schwanfeld, Bavaria. Jutta served as its abbess from 1234 onwards until her death around 1250.

Jutta was buried under what is now the high altar of the convent church. Soon it became an important place of pilgrimage, with sick people drinking from a bowl that was surrounded by a relic of Jutta's arm, asking for her prayers to Almighty God to be healed of their infirmities.

Unfortunately, in 1579, Prince-Bishop Julius Echter of Mespelbrunn dissolved the Heiligenthal monastery and the income was transferred to the newly founded Juliusspital in Würzburg, where the arm relic was also taken and ultimately lost.

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Jutta may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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