The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness

Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences, some of which she recorded in Latin “with her own hand,” in what became Book Two of  The Herald of God’s Loving-Kindnes s, the standard version of her revelations. The other four books   were written down by a close confidant of the saint, now often known as "Sister N." Recently a differen