Catholic Encyclopedia on Vocations
Gertrude of Hackeborn
Cistercian Abbess of Helfta, near Eisleben; born near Halberstadt in 1232; died towards the end of 1292. She belonged to the noble Thuringian family of ...
Remiremont
Vosges, France, monastery and nunnery of the Rule of St. Benedict, founded by Sts. Romaricus and Amatus in 620, on hills above the site where the town now stands, whence the name Romarici Mons , Remiremont. The monastery became a
St. Adelaide
Abbess, born in the tenth century; died at Cologne, 5 February, 1015. She was daughter of Megingoz, Count of Guelders, and when still very young entered the convent of St. Ursula in Cologne, where the Rule of
Wilton Abbey
A Benedictine convent in Wiltshire, England, three miles from Salisbury. A first foundation was made as a
Montreuil Abbey
A former convent of Cistercian nuns in the Diocese of Laon, now Soissons, France. ...
Hohenburg
(ODILIENBERG; ALTITONA)
A suppressed nunnery, situated on the Odilienberg, the most famous of the Vosges mountains in Alsace. It was founded about 690 by St. Odilia , who also was its first abbess. On the eastern slope of the Odilienberg she built a
Congregation of Our Lady of Calvary
A congregation founded at Poitiers, in 1617, by Antoinette of Orléans-Longueville, assisted by the famous Capuchin Father Joseph Le Clerc du Tremblay. Antoinette was left a
Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg
Abbess of the Premonstratensian convent of Aldenberg, near Wetzlar, in the Diocese of
Trebnitz
A former abbey of Cistercian nuns, situated north of Breslau in Silesia. It was founded in 1203 by Duke Henry the Bearded of
Mary Joseph Butler
First Irish Abbess of the Irish Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Grace, at Ypres, Flanders, b. at Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, in Dec., 1641; d. at ...
St. Gertrude of Nivelles
Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659.
She was a daughter of Pepin I of Landen, and a younger sister of St. Begga,
St. Sexburga
Died about 699. Her sisters, Sts. Ethelburga and Saethrid, were both Abbesses of Faremontier in Brie, St. Withburga was a nun at Ely, and St. Etheldreda became
St. Thecla
Benedictine Abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt; date of birth unknown; d. at Kitzingen about 790 or later. St. Boniface , Apostle of Germany, kept up a ...
Wimborne Minster
( Also WIMBURN or WINBURN).
Located in Dorsetshire, England. Between the years 705-23 a double monastery like the famous house of St. Hilda at Whitby was founded at Wimborne by Sts. Cuthburga ...
Abbey of Vadstena
Motherhouse of the Brigittine Order, situated on Lake Wetter, in the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden. Though the abbey was founded in 1346 by St. ...
Caesarius of Prüm
Abbot of the Benedictine monastery, near Trier, afterwards a Cistercian monk at Heisterbach near Bonn, born of the noble
Huelgas de Burgos
The royal monastery of Las Huelgas de Burgos was founded by Alfonso VIII at the instance of his consort, Doña Leonor of England, about the year 1180, and, upon the completion of the work necessary for their ...
Lettice Mary Tredway
(Called "Lady" Tredway)
Born 1595; died Oct., 1677; daughter of Sir Walter Tredway, of Buckley Park, Northamptonshire; her mother was Elizabeth Weyman. In July, 1616, Lady Tredway entered the ...
Abbey of Engelberg
A Benedictine monastery in Switzerland, formerly in the Diocese of Constance, but now in that of Chur. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels and occupies a ...
St. Attala
Born in the sixth century in Burgundy ; died 627. He first became a monk at Lérins, but, displeased with the loose discipline prevailing there, ...
St. Fructuosus of Braga
An Archbishop, d. 16 April, c. 665. He was the son of a Gothic general, and studied in Palencia. After the death of his parents he retired as a hermit to a
Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross
Poor Clare, born 28 December, 1653; died at Rouen, 21 Mary's 1735, daughter of Sir Robert Howard, younger son of Thomas, Earl of Berkshire in whose home Mary's early youth was spent. At the age of eighteen, to escape the admiration of Charles II, she went to Paris, under the assumed name ...
Abbey of Whitby
(Formerly called Streoneshalh). A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, was founded about 657, as a double monastery, by Oswy, King of Northumberland. The first abbess was St. Hilda, under ...
St. Drostan
(DRUSTAN, DUSTAN, THROSTAN)
A Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600. All that is known of him is found in the "Breviarium Aberdonense" and in the "Book of Deir", a ninth-century manuscript now ...
Abbacy Nullius of Wettingen-Mehrerau
A Cistercian abbey near Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. The Cistercian monastery of Wettingen was founded by Henry of Rapperswyl in the present Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, in 1227. It was first recruited with ...
Bachiarius
An early fifth-century writer, known only through two treatises which warrant the conjecture that he was a monk, possibly an abbot, and a Spaniard.
The first of these writings, entitled by Gennadius "Liber de Fide" is an apologetical letter to the pope in which ...
St. Ulrich of Zell
(Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of Ratisbon ), born at Ratisbon, at the beginning of 1029; died at Zell, probably on 10 July, 1093. Feast, 14 July (10). Two lives of him are extant: the first, written anonymously ...
Schenute
(SCHENUDI, SCHNUDI, SINUTHIUS).
A Coptic abbot. The years 332-33-34 and 350 are mentioned as the date of his birth, and the years 451-52 and 466 as the date of his death, all authors agreeing that he lived about 118 years. He was born at Schenalolet in the ...
St. Bertulf
Abbot of Bobbio, date of birth unknown; d. 639 or 640. He was the son of a pagan nobleman in Austrasia and a near relative of St. Arnulf, Bishop of ...
Reifenstein
A former Cistercian abbey in Eichsfeld, founded on 1 August, 1162 by Count Ernst of Tonna. It was first called Albolderode and belonged to the electorate of Mainz. The monks who came from the monastery of Volkerode ...
Abbey of Waldsassen
("Settlement in the woods").
Located on the River Wondreb, Upper Palatinate, near the border of Bohemia, in the Diocese of Ratisbon. This celebrated Cistercian monastery was founded by Gerwich von ...
Ardo Smaragdus
Hagiographer, died at the Benedictine monastery of Aniane, Herault, in Southern France, March, 843. He entered this monastery when still a boy and was bought up under the direction of Abbot St. Benedict of Aniane . On ...
Brigittines
The Brigittine Order (also, ORDER OF ST. SAVIOUR) was founded in 1346 by St. Brigit, or Bridget, of Sweden at Vadstena in the Diocese of ...
Heisterbach
(Vallis S. Petri).
A former Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It traces its origin to a knight named Walther, who ...
Order of Gilbertines
Founded by St. Gilbert, about the year 1130, at Sempringham, Gilbert's native place, where he was then parish priest. His wish originally had been to found a monastery, but finding this impossible, he gave a rule of
Marienberg
A Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of St. Joseph near Mals, Tyrol (in Vintschau). The history of the founding goes back to Charlemagne, who established ...
St. Eustace
Date of birth unknown; died 29 March, 625. He was second abbot of the Irish monastery of Luxeuil in France, and his feast is commemorated in the Celtic martyrologies on the 29th of March. He was one of the first ...
Liessies
A Benedictine monastery near Avesnes, in the Diocese of Cambrai, France (Nord), founded about the middle of eighth century and dedicated to St. ...
Vaux-de-Cernay
A celebrated Cistercian abbey situated in the Diocese of Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, in what was called the "Isle-de-France". In 1118 Simon de Neauffle and ...
Abbey of Göttweig
(GOTTWEIH, GOTTVICUM, GOTTVICENSE).
A Benedictine abbey situated on a hill of the same name, not quite four miles south of Krems, in Lower Austria. It was founded as a monastery for Canons Regular ...
Cistercian Abbey of Zwettl
(CLARAVALLIS AUSTRIAE).
A filiation of Heiligenkreuz, of the line of Morimond, situated in Lower Austria, in the Diocese of St. Hippolyte. This monastery was founded in 1137 by Hadmar I of ...
Bertha
Of the various holy women bearing the name of Bertha, five are more particularly worthy of notice.
I. BERTHA, QUEEN OF KENT
Died c. 612. She was a Frankish princess, daughter of Charibert and the pious Ingoberga. In marrying the
St. Agnes of Montepulciano
Born in the neighbourhood of Montepulciano in Tuscany about 1268; died there 1317. At the age of nine years she entered a monastery. Four years later ...
Mehrerau
Formerly a Benedictine, now a Cistercian Abbey ; situated on Lake Constance, west of Bregenz, in the district of Vorarlberg, Austria. The original monastery was founded by
William, Abbot of Marmoutiers
Born in Brittany, died at Marmoutiers, 23 May, 1124. For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a
St. Aldhelm
Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and ecclesiastical writer (c. 639-709). Aldhelm, also written Ealdhelm, Ældhelm, ...
Vallumbrosan Order
The name is derived from the motherhouse, Vallombrosa (Latin Vallis umbrosa, shady valley), situated 20 miles from Florence on the northwest slope of Monte Secchieta in the Pratomagno chain, 3140 feet above the sea. ...
Cistercian Sisters
The first Cistercian monastery for women was established at Tart in the Diocese of Langres (now
Schäftlarn
Formerly a Premonstratensian, now a Benedictine, abbey, situated on the Isar not far from Munich in Upper Bavaria. It was founded in 762 by the priest Waltrich and dedicated to St. Dionysius. Waltrich was the first ...
St. Nazarius
Fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, probably sometime during the reign of the Merovingian Clotaire II, 584-629. He successfully attacked the remnants of heathendom on the southern coast of France, ...
Malvern
Located in Worcestershire, England, a district covered by a lofty range between the Severn and Wye, known as the Malvern Hills. On its eastern side were formerly two houses of Benedictine monks, the priories of Great ...
Person Gobelinus
(Persona.)
Born in 1358; died 17 November, 1421. He was a Westphalian and was known as an historian and an ardent reformer of monastic life in his native land. He received his first schooling at ...
St. Erhard of Ratisbon
Bishop of that city in the seventh century, probably identical with an Abbot Erhard of Ebersheimmunster mentioned in a Merovingian diploma of 684. Ancient documents call him also Erard and Herhard. The legendary account of ...
Easterwine
(Or Eosterwini).
Abbot of Wearmouth, was the nephew of St. Benedict Biscop ; born 650, died 7 March, 686. Descended from the noblest stock of Northumbria, as a young
Sherborne Abbey
Located in Dorsetshire, England ; founded in 998. Sherborne ( scir-burne , clear brook) was originally the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Western Wessex, having been established as such by
Prioress
(Priorissa, Praeposita).
A superioress in a monastic community for women. The term prioress is properly applied only to a superioress in a
Liesborn
A former noted Benedictine Abbey in Westphalia, Germany, founded in 815; suppressed in 1803. It was situated near Beckurn, in the south-eastern part of the district of Münster. According to an old tradition the ...
Double Monasteries
Religious houses comprising communities of both men and women, dwelling in contiguous establishments, united under the rule of one superior, and using one church in common for their liturgical offices. The reason for ...
Jonas of Bobbio
(Or Jonas of Susa )
Monk and hagiographer, b. about the close ...
Abbey of Einsiedeln
A Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, that title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, from which the name Einsiedeln is also said to have originated. St. Meinrad, of the
Abbey of Cornillon
Founded by Albero, Bishop of Liège, in 1124, three years after St. Norbert had formed the Premonstratensian Order. The abbey was intended for ...
Ligugé
A Benedictine Abbey, in the Diocese of Poitiers, France, was founded about the year A.D. 360, by St. Martin of
Heilsbronn
(FONS SALUTIS).
Formerly a Cistercian monastery in the Diocese of Eichstätt in Middle Franconia. It was founded in 1133 by ...
St. Erconwald
Bishop of London, died about 690. He belonged to the princely family of the East Anglian Offa, and devoted a considerable portion of his patrimony to founding two monasteries, one for monks at Chertsey, and the other ...
Abbey of Echternach
(Also EPTERNACH, Latin EPTERNACENSIS).
A Benedictine monastery in the town of that name, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and the
Ambrose Autpert
An early medieval writer and abbot of the Benedictine Order, born in France, early in the eighth century; died after an abbacy of little more than a year at his monastery of
St. Desiderius of Cahors
Bishop, b. at Obrege (perhaps Antobroges, name of a Gaulish tribe), on the frontier of the Provincia Narbonnensis, of a noble Frankish family from Aquitaine, which possessed large estates in the territory of Albi ; d. 15 ...
St. Ghislain
Confessor and anchorite in Belgium ; b. in the first half of the seventh century; d. at Saint-Ghislain (Ursidongus), 9 October, c. 680. He was probably of German origin. Ghislain lived in the province of Hainault ...
George Ashby
Monk of the Cistercian Monastery of Jervaulx in Yorkshire, executed after the Pilgrimage of Grace, in the year 1537. His name is found in several English martyrologies, but there is the utmost uncertainty as to the
Antiochus of Palestine
A monk of the seventh century, said to have been born near Ancyra ( Asia
Blessed Seraphina Sforza
Born at Urbino about 1434; died at Pesaro, 8 September, 1478. Her parents were Guido Antonio of Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, and Cattarina Colonna. ...
Monastery of Weissenau
(Originally OWE_AUGIA, then MINDERLAU-AUGIA MINOR, and finally WEISSEN AU-AUGIA ALBA or CANDIDA).
A suppressed Premonstratensian house near Ravensburg in Wurtemberg, founded in 1145 by Gebizo of Ravensburg, a Guelphic ministerial, and his sister Luitgarde. Its ...
Prüm
A former Benedictine abbey in Lorraine, now in the Diocese of Trier, founded by a Frankish
St. Dunchadh
(DUNICHAD, DUNCAD, DONATUS)
Confessor, Abbot of Iona ; date of b. unknown, d. in 717. He was the son of Ceannfaeladh and grandson of Maelcobha of the house of Conall Gulban. He is first heard of as ...
Hugh of Flavigny
Benedictine monk and historian; b. about 1064, probably at Verdun (Lorraine); d. before the middle of the twelfth century. He belonged to a prominent family, and received his
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
(Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus)
Carmelite of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus, born at Alençon, France, 2 January, 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September, 1897.
She was the ninth child of saintly parents, Louis and ...
Gemblours
(Gembloux, Gemblacum)
A suppressed Benedictine monastery about nine miles north-west of Namur on the river Orneau in Belgium, founded c. 945 by St. Guibert (Wibert) and dedicated to
St. Gerald
Bishop of Mayo, an English monk, date of birth unknown; died 13 March, 731; followed St. Colman, after the Synod of Whitby (664), to Ireland, and settled in Innisboffin, in 668. Dissensions arose, after a time, ...
Mariano Armellino
Benedictine historian, b. in Rome (according to others, at Ancona ) in 1657; d. at Foligno in 1737. At the age of twenty he entered the monastery of ...
Blessed Berchtold
(BERTHOLD).
Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland ; date of birth unknown; d. 3 November, 1197. Before becoming
St. Anselm
Abbot, Duke of Forum Julii, the modern Friuli, in the northeastern part of Italy. Wishing to serve God in a monastery, he left the world, and in 750 built a monastery at Fanano, a place given to him by Aistuiph, ...
Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
An enclosed congregation and a reform of the Dominican Order devoted to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. It was founded in the face of great opposition by Father Anthony Le Quieu, a French Dominican, ...
St. William of Gellone
Born 755; died 28 May, c. 812; was the second count of Toulouse, having attained that dignity in 790. He is by some writers also given the title of Duke of Aquitaine. This saint is the hero of the ninth-century "Roman de Guillame au court nez", but the story of his
Furness Abbey
Situated in the north of Lancashire about five miles from the town of Ulverston. Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian. Vitalis, the founder of Savigny and the disciple ...
Gottschalk of Orbais
A medieval theologian ; b. about 800, d. after 866, probable 30 October, 868 (or 869), in the monastery of Hautvilliers near Reims ; son of a noble Saxon count named Berno, who presented him when still a child, as an ...
St. Walburga
(WALTPURDE, WALPURGIS; at Perche GAUBURGE; in other parts of France VAUBOURG, FALBOURG).
Born in Devonshire, about 710; died at Heidenheim, 25 Feb., 777. She is the patroness of Eichstadt, Oudenarde, ...
St. Odo
Second Abbot of Cluny, born 878 or 879, probably near Le Mans ; died 18 November, 942. He spent several years at the court of William, Duke of
Ottobeuren
(OTTOBURA, MONASTERIUM OTTOBURANUM)
Formerly a Benedictine abbey, now a priory, near Memmingen in the Bavarian AllgŠu. It was founded in 764 by Blessed Toto, and dedicated to St. Alexander, the martyr. Of its early history little is known beyond the fact ...
Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao
A writer and theologian, born at Rio de Janeiro, 23 Aug., 1687; died there, 18 Dec., 1764. On 3 March, 1703, he became a Benedictine at the Abbey of Nossa Senhora do Montserrate at Rio de Janeiro, where he also studied ...
Franz Pfanner
An abbot, born at Langen, Vorarlberg, Austria, 1825; died at Emmaus, South Africa, 24 May, 1909. In 1850 he was ordained priest and was given a curacy in his native diocese. Nine years later he was appointed an ...
Tepl
A Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia, included in the Archdiocese of
St. Winefride
Born at Holywell, Wales, about 600; died at Gwytherin, Wales, 3 Nov., 660. Her father was Thevit, a Cambrian magnate, the possessor of three manors in what is now Flintshire; her mother Wenlo, a sister of St. Beuno and ...
Stanbrook Abbey
An abbey of Benedictine nuns, midway between Malvern and Worcester, England. The
Giovanni Domenico Costadoni
Frequently known as Dom Anselmo, his name in religion, an Italian Camaldolese monk, historian, and theologian, b. 6 October, 1714, at Venice ; d. 23 ...
The Martyrs of Gorkum
The year 1572, Luther and Calvin had already wrested from the Church a great part of Europe. The iconoclastic storm had swept through the Netherlands, and was followed by a struggle between Lutheranism and
Sylvestrines
A minor monastic order or, strictly speaking, congregation following in general the Rule of St. Benedict but distinct from the Black monks and not ...
Canonical Erection of a Monastery
A religious house (monastery or convent ) is a fixed residence of religious persons. It supposes, therefore, continuous habitation of a community strictly so called, governed by a
Benedict van Haeften
(Haeftenus).
Benedictine writer, provost of the Monastery of Afflighem, Belgium ; born at Utrecht, 1588; died 31 July 1648, at ...
Lambert of St-Bertin
Benedictine chronicler and abbot, b. about 1060; d. 22 June, 1125, at St-Bertin, France. He came of a distinguished family, and, when still young, entered the monastery of St-Bertin. He afterwards visited several famous
Jocelin de Brakelond
An English chronicler, of the late twelfth century. He was the monk of Bury St. Edmund's whose history of the abbey under the feeble
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