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Le monastère cistercien, fondé près du château de Mansfeld en 1229 et transféré en 1258 à Helfta, fut aux XIIIe et XIVe siècle un centre religieux important de la mystique féminine en Europe. Le rayonnement mystique du monastère de Helfta est incarné par les quatre femmes saintes que sont Gertrude et Mechthild de Hackeborn, Mechthild von Magdeburg et Gertrude la Grande, qui est la seule sainte allemande...
Saint Gertrude the Great (1256-1302) was a Saxon Christian saint. She died in the monastery of Helfta. As a young girl, she joined the Benedictine monastery at Helfta, under the direction of its abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn. She is sometimes confused with her abbess, which is why she is often incorrectly depicted in art holding a crosier. She later experienced a conversion to God and began to strive...
The subject of this article is the call of lay people to the mystical life. The topic under consideration indicates two poles, around which the main reflection revolves: the mystic and the lay state of life. The call of lay people to mysticism is not just a hypothesis, but a real experience, researched and decribed by theologians. So reflecting on the call to the mystic life of lay people is not so...
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