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St. Mechtilde
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10105b.htm
Born Matilda von Hackeborn-Wippra, blood sister of the Abbess Gertrude von Hackeborn, monastic herself. Quite plausibly the model for Matelda in Dante's "Purgatorio." She died in 1298.
Mechtilde of Hackeborn
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/mechtildeh.html
Brief biography, by Karen Rae Keck.
Gertrude the Great, c. 1301, and Mechtilde, c. 1298
http://www.cin.org/gergreat.html
Essay on these two spiritual authors, whose lives were bound together.