ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 31st of May WELCOME! BLESSED MECHTHILD OF DIESSEN, ABBESS Blessed Mechthild (Matilda, Mathildis, Mechtildis) was abbess at Diessen (Dießen) in the twelfth century. Her father was Count Berthold von Andechs and Diessen, her mother, Sophia, also Countess Amertalia (of Ammerthal). They were very pious. The blessed abbess had two brothers: Berthold II, Count of Andechs, and Otto, Duke of Meran, who became Bishop of Bamberg in 1177 and inaugurated the new monastery church of Diessen in 1182 in the presence of Bishop Hartwig of Augsburg. She also had two sisters: Blessed Euphemia , abbess of the Altomünster monastery (died in 1186 and buried in Diessen at the side of her sister Mechthild) and Gisela, the wife of Count Diepold von Berg, from which marriage came forth many sons, most of whom became bishops. For example Ulrich II (Diepold) of Passau, Magnoald, Bishop of Passau, Otto II, Bishop of Freising, Henry (Heinrich II), Bishop o...