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For cat fanciers, Gertrude does not take second place to St Patrick...
she is known for protection from mice, and by extension has become the
patron st of cats and cat lovers (though I have yet to find a medieval
image of her with cats, one sees mice at her feet or running up her
pastoral staff in most medieval images). Here is a pic of her, on the
door to her collegiale chuch in Nivelles:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.convivialiteenflandre.org/sorties/sorties-04-05/5nivelles/photos/boiserie2_gertrude.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.convivialiteenflandre.org/sorties/sorties-04-05/5nivelles/nivelles.php&h=515&w=316&sz=39&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=1RXP_JtWmMcaeM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=80&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgertrude%2Bnivelles%2Bboiserie%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
TGD
>>> John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> 3/17/2007 6:03 PM >>>
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Today (17. March) is the feast day of:
2) Gertrude of Nivelles (d. 659). Getrude was a daughter of Pepin of
Landen and of his wife, St. Itta; she was thus also a sister of St.
Begga. After Pepin's death Itta founded a double monastery at today's
Nivelles (prov. de Brabant Wallon) in Belgium and entered it along with
G., who became abbess. In about 670 a monk of Nivelles wrote the first
of G.'s Vitae (BHL 3490), setting forth her knowledge of Scripture, her
works of charity, and her miracles. Her cult spread widely in the Low
Countries and in adjacent areas.
G.'s monastery has disappeared without trace. Herewith some views of
Nivelles' originally eleventh-century collégiale dedicated to her, now
rebuilt after extensive bombing damage sustained early in World War II:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Joshke/Niv4.jpg
Here's an illustrated, German-language page on the originally later
fourteenth-century Pfarrkirche St. Gertrudis in Horstmar (Kr. Steinfurt)
in Germany's Land Nordrhein-Westfalen:
http://tinyurl.com/2bnuz4
And here's a page of views of the originally late fifteenth-century St.
Gertrudiskerk in Workum (Fr) in The Netherlands:
http://frieslandchurches.tripod.com/workumherv.html
Best,
John Dillon
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