Christina Ebner
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Christina Ebner (or: Christine Ebner) (1277 - 1355) was a German Nun and writer. Born on Good Friday, in Nuremberg, she entered the Dominican order convent at Engelthal in the vicinity of Nuremberg.[1]
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[edit] Spiritual Experiences
At the end of her year of novitiate she fell gravely ill, with an affliction which reappeared three times annually from her thirteenth to her twenty-third year. Each year, for the remainder of her life, she suffered a relapse of this mysterious sickness. Elected superior, in her thirteenth year she began experincing frequent religious visions. In 1317, at the behest of her confessor, Father Konrad of Füssen, O.P., she began writing a diary of her spiritual experiences, which she continued until 1353.
[edit] Later life
The diary details the part played by Ebner in the settlement of the difficulties arising from the riots at Nuremberg in 1348; from the earthquake of the same year; the Black Death; the Flagellants' processions of 1349; and the long quarrel between Louis the Bavarian and the Holy See. She also tells us of the absence of a director from the removal of Konrad to Freiburg in 1324 till 1351, when Henry of Nördlingen visited her and gave her advice sufficient for the remainder of her life. The treatise "Von der genaden uberlast" ("Of the graces excessive burden") which the Stuttgart Literary Society edited over her name in 1871 is probably not her work. She died at Engelthal, on 27 December 1355.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
[edit] Sources
- ^ Harvey Whitehouse, Luther H. Martin (2004). Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition. Rowman Altamira, 130. ISBN 0759106215.
[edit] Works
[edit] References
- Hindsley, Leonard Patrick (1998). The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312162510.
[edit] External links
- Thomas M. Schwertner (1913). "Ebner". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- Christine Ebner at the Metropolitan State College of Denver
- Monastic Matrix
