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Today (30. June) is also the feast day of:
Erentrudis (d. 718). Erentrudis (in Latin, also Erendruda, Erendrudis; in modern German, also Erentrud and Ehrentrud) is the traditional founding abbess of the Benedictine monastery for women on the Nonnberg in Salzburg. According to various passages in the relatively quite late hagiography of bishop St. Rupert of Salzburg, she was a relative of his whom he brought to Salzburg from Worms for this very purpose. Rupert's later Vita BHL 7397 adds that Erentrudis was devoted to him, that she was desolated at his death, that she soon received from him a consoling vision in which he announced both that he was now in heaven and that she would soon join him there, and that she soon did die, surrounded by the sisters of her monastery. A Miracula by the monastery's chaplain Caesarius (BHL 2589) lists various of her postmortem miracles starting with her curing emperor St. Henry II of epilepsy or of some similar affliction, in recompense for which he rebuilt the abbey church (Henry did give the abbey a new church; it was consecrated in 1009). The abbey of Nonnberg preserves relics believed to be hers. As Rupert is the patron saint of Land Salzburg, so Erentrudis is the patron saint of the City of Salzburg.
Some views of the originally twelfth-century St. Erentrudiskapelle at the Benedictine abbey of Göttweig (near Krems in Niederösterreich), presumed to be a rebuilding of a predecessor from 1072:
http://tinyurl.com/6ocm5ur
http://tinyurl.com/7qbfspe
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Erentrudis as portrayed in an earlier fourteenth-century reliquary bust (the crown is seventeenth-century) in the abbey of Nonnberg:
http://tinyurl.com/75yuwlu
Erentrudis (at right; at left, St. Rupert) as portrayed in a mold, taken from an originally late fifteenth-century wooden statue, in the Nonnberg's abbey church of St. Maria Himmelfahrt:
http://tinyurl.com/6tbrok9
Best,
John Dillon
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