The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness Paperback / softback
by Gertrud the Great of Helfta
Part of the Cistercian Fathers Series series
Paperback / softback
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Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate.
At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences, some of which she recorded in Latin “with her own hand,†in what became Book Two of The Herald of God’s Loving-Kindness, the standard version of her revelations.
The other four books were written down by a close confidant of the saint, now often known as "Sister N."Recently a different version of Gertrud's revelations has been discovered, in an early fourteenth-century manuscript held at the University of Leipzig, Germany, much older than the known manuscripts of The Herald. The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness is shorter than The Herald, and while the two versions have some text in common (notably most of The Herald's Book Two), the new manuscript also contains some completely new material, which sometimes modifies and sometimes complements what readers already know of the saint.Â
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Liturgical Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2022
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- ISBN:9780879071387
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Liturgical Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780879071387
