ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of November WELCOME! MECHTILD, ABBESS OF ESSEN Mechtild and her brother Otto Mathilde (also Mahthild, Matilda [Mechtild]; 949 - 5 November 1011) was Abbess of Essen Abbey from 973 to her death. One of the most important abbesses in the history of Essen, she was responsible for the abbey, for its buildings, its precious relics, liturgical vessels and manuscripts, its political contacts, and for commissioning translations and overseeing education. In the list of Essen Abbesses from 1672, she features as the second Abbess Mathilde [Mechtild] and as a result, she is sometimes called "Mathilde II" to distinguish her from the earlier abbess of the same name, who is meant to have governed Essen Abbey from 907 to 910. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde,_Abbess_of_Essen