Feast day: November 19
St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn
A German Benedictine nun of beautiful voice and deep prayer whose visions, written down by her sisters, became one of the most loved devotional books of the Middle Ages.
Dante may have drawn the figure of 'Matelda' in his Paradiso from her, and her recorded prayers spread the devotion to the Sacred Heart across Europe.
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