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ST MAUD, QUEEN OF GERMANY - 14 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 14th of March WELCOME! SAINT MAUD, QUEEN OF GERMANY  (A.D. 968.) Saint Mathildis (Maud, Mathilda) was daughter of Theodoric, a powerful Saxon count. Her parents, being sensible that piety is the only true greatness, placed her very young in the monastery of Erfurt, of which her grandmother Maud, who had renounced the world in her widowhood, was then abbess.  Here our saint acquired an extraordinary relish for prayer and spiritual reading; and learned to work at her needle, and to employ all the precious moments of life in something serious and worthy the great end of her creation.  HER MARRIAGE TO HENRY THE FOWLER She remained in that house an accomplished model of all virtues, till her parents married her to Henry, son of Otho, duke of Saxony, in 913. Her husband, surnamed the Fowler, from his fondness for the diversion of hawking, then much in vogue, became duke of Saxony by the death of his father, in 916; ...

ST MAUD, QUEEN - 14 MARCH

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 14th of March WELCOME! SAINT MAUD (MATILDA), QUEEN Saint Maud, princess, was daughter of Theodoric, a powerful Saxon count. Her parents placed her very young in the monastery of Erfurt of which her grandmother Maud was then abbess.  Our Saint remained in that house, an accomplished model of all virtues, till her parents married her to Henry, son of Otho, Duke of Saxony, in 913, who was afterwards chosen king of Germany.  VICTORIES OVER HER SPIRITUAL ENEMIES He was s pious and victorious prince, and very tender of his subjects. Whilst by his arms he checked the insolence of the Hungarians and Danes, and enlarged his dominions by adding to them Bavaria, Maud gained domestic victories over her spiritual enemies more worthy of a Christian and far greater in the eyes of Heaven.  DEVOTION AND HUMILITY She nourished the precious seeds of devotion and humility in her heart by assiduous prayer and meditation. It was her delig...