Feast day: June 18
St. Elizabeth of Schönau
A German Benedictine nun and visionary whose recorded experiences, edited by her brother, circulated widely and who corresponded with the great mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
A friend and correspondent of Hildegard of Bingen, she was one of the most read of the medieval women visionaries in her own century.
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