CHRISTINA EBNER, ABBESS OF ENGELTHAL
Engelthal, a former monastery in the diocese of Eichstätt, part of the Nuremberg (Nürnberg) area, fell victim to the introduction of Protestantism. Christina, Abbess of Engelthal, came from the Patrician family of Ebner and in her time was famous for her ecstatic states and the gifts of prophecy and healing. Even Emperor Charles IV heard of her and stopped to visit her on the Friday after Corpus Christi in 1350 to receive her blessing. Christina and her sister Margaretha, a nun in Maria-Medingen (District of Augsburg), were in close contact with Tauler. She died on December 26, 1356 in the 79th year of her life. Her body rests beneath the ruins of Engelthal; the inscription on her tomb in the Saint Sebaldus Church in Nuremberg refers to Christina as “blessed.”
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 609) |
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Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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