June 16
Saints of the Day

Saint Lutgardis, 1182-1246, Lutgard; Lutgarde of the Sacred Heart; Lutgarde of Tongres; Lutgarde; Lutgardis of Aywieres
A pretty girl from the Nederlands who joint two orders, the Benedictines and Cistercians, with many visions and mystic experiences

     A pretty girl wo in her late teens received a vision of Christ showing her his wounds, and at age 20 she became a Benedictine nun with a true vocation. She had visions of Christ while in prayer, experienced ecstacies, levitated, and dripped blood from forehead and hair when enraptured in the Passion.
On the advice of her friend Saint Christina the Astonishing she joined the Cistercians at Aywieres (in modern Belgium), a stricter order, where she lived for her remaining 30 years. Displayed the gifts of healing, prophecy, spiritual wisdom, and was an inspired teacher on the Gospels.
    Blind for the last eleven years of her life, she treated the affliction as a gift - it reduced the distraction of the outside world. In one of her last visions, Christ told her when she was to die; she spent the time remaining praying for the convesion of sinners.
Born 1182 at Tongres, Limburg, Nederlands
Died 16 June 1246 at Aywieres, just as night office began on the Saturday night following Feast of the Holy Trinity
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St. Luthgard

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