Erentrudis

CONCERNING ST. ERENTRUDIS, VIRGIN,

ABBESS OF SALZBURG IN BAVARIA.

ABOUT A.D. 630.

PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY.

A synopsis of the Life from the Life of St. Rupert. The site and restoration of the monastery. Miracles written by Caesarius of Nonnberg.

Erentrudis, Virgin, Abbess of Salzburg in Bavaria (St.)

BHL Number: 2588

BY D. P.

Saint Rupert, the Apostle of the Bavarians, and the same, from Worms in the Palatinate of the Rhine, Bishop of Salzburg in Bavaria, having established there about the year 616 a Cathedra, the blessed reward of his Evangelical labors, St. Rupert being warned of his impending death on the day of the Lord's resurrection, on the 6th before the Kalends of …

of April, in the year 23 or 28 of this century received, as before his Life I demonstrated, on March 27. This man, when his own death (as at no. 7 of the 2nd Life is read) divinely revealed to him long before he foreknew, meeting Bl. Erentrudis, said; "Sister most dear to me, a word I have secret for you: I pray you betray to no one while I live, what to you secretly I have determined to reveal. Lo, God deigning, has been revealed to me my passage from this world; and now I ask, Lady Sister, that you pray for my soul, that God may deign to place it in his rest." To whom the blessed Virgin with tears answered: "If it is so, Lord, as you speak, it is more expedient for me, that I die before you." To whom the Bishop: "Do not, dearest Sister, hastily and importunely desire your departure or passage, because a sin it is great: for not in our, but in the divine disposition is our departure established." Then the most blessed Virgin, he promises his sister St. Erentrudis, that she too will soon follow. with tears prostrate at the Pontiff's feet, prayed to him, saying; "Lord Father, remember I pray, that from my homeland hither you led me, and now wretched and orphaned you wish to leave me. One and only this I ask of you, that if I do not deserve to depart before you or with you, at least after yours, the sooner in the confession of the Lord, you interceding, I may deserve to have the desired passage." The most blessed Prelate Rupert assented to these prayers; and when for a very long time about the sweetness of eternal life they had mingled colloquies, mutual tears pouring upon each other, the last farewell mournfully they gave.

[2] Since the Saint so distinctly promised the Virgin's vow to be fulfilled, it now seems enough, that her death is not to be deferred beyond the year 30 of the aforesaid century, perhaps even some years earlier it happened. But how, summoned from Worms to Salzburg, Erentrudis came, in the same Life at no. 5 thus is premised: "But the man of God, seeing through the precipices of vices, He had summoned her from Worms, the flock of the Lord departing through concupiscence of women, prayed the Lord in his heart, saying: Lord, if it be good in your eyes, I will choose for myself some persons, apt for your cult and service, through whom may be drawn, not only women, but also men, to the exercise of a good life. But he had in his country, namely of the Vangiones, in the city of Worms, from her first cradle consecrated to God, named Erentrudis: whom to himself with other women of the same order and religion wishing to summon, a place and dwelling, fitting for Nuns, in the castle of Viviers he built, and to her the blessed Virgin he assigned. Who, all things being perfected, called by him, came; and at the sight of Bl. Rupert was much glad, that him to see she deserved before the day of her death."

[3] Therefore the blessed Pontiff led her into the oratory, which he had already long since consecrated to Bl. Mary; and after this said to her: "Lady Sister, do you know why I summoned you?" But she answered: "I know, Father, I know: for the Lord Jesus Christ also revealed to me in spirit, saying: Go in peace whither you are called. Lo, I will be with you, and will bring to me through you many souls of women, whom when by your example to the path of true religion you shall have led, you will come to me." to the Virgins, established in Bavaria, Hearing these things the most blessed Pontiff, giving thanks to God, returned praises. After no long space of time, innumerable virgins and noble matrons to the virgin Erentrudis came together: over whom she presided so discreetly, that in a short time she showed all so instructed, as to render them apt for religion and pleasing to God. For the virgin Erentrudis herself was such in manners, that she counted as gain for herself, whatever of consolation any disciple of hers from the gift of divine regard perceived: such she was in her vow, that she counted the salvation of all, as her own: such she was in countenance, that whatever of good or evil befell any man, she thought had befallen herself. What is to be recorded of the continence and abstinence of her life, of the bestowal of alms, of the probity of manners, of the assiduity of vigils, and of every kind of holiness of sacred religion? all which, because they cannot be expressed, are to be omitted rather than pursued.

[4] Thus far that Life of St. Rupert; into which all the aforesaid, and what is presently to be said about the Virgin's death, are woven: and these gathered thence into one, the Regular Canons of the monastery of Böddeken in Westphalia, in their notable Legendary of the month of June, often praised by us, inscribed under this title; "Here begins the Life of the most blessed virgin Erentrudis, who in the church of Salzburg bodily reposes, where she piously dies, invited by the Saint through a vision, who is celebrated on the day before the Kalends of July." There are had here also, those things which about the blessed end of the Virgin are read in the Acts of St. Rupert; that after his passage, Bl. Erentrudis night and day persisting in prayer, prayers to the Lord with tears for the soul of her deceased kinsman, Bl. Rupert, devoutly offered, keeping the watches of the vigils and expecting the gift of the promised consolation: and that on a certain night Bl. Rupert appeared to her in a vision, and said to her: "Come, Sister most dear, into the kingdom of Christ, for which now a long time you have labored." She, waking, gave thanks to God, and at once began to be sick. The Sisters therefore being called together, after words of exhortation, after receiving the most sacred Sacraments of the Church, and after the sweet kisses of charity, her spirit she rendered. After this her sacred body in the city of Viviers, embalmed with spices, in the monastery of Bl. Mary with the highest veneration on the day before the Kalends of July was consigned to burial. And thus ends that Life of St. Rupert, as in her Life is read; by the Böddeken monks almost word for word, under the name of Erentrudis, described. But it is to be noted, that here the city of Viviers, and above the castle of Viviers it is called, as the Böddeken manuscript teaches, on account of the eruption of living fountains, the name being given by St. Rupert himself, as they wish: others preferred to write the name Juvavum, from a similar cause.

[5] About the homeland of those Saints, Franconia, not Ireland, we treated enough in March: and the same confirms the Author of the more recent Life, from book 6 of the ancient Lessons of Henry Canisius reprinted by Surius and Mabillon; which neither here is there need to reprint, since beyond what is there to be read it contains nothing but certain common amplifications, contributing nothing to the history; unless perhaps from more certain knowledge, and not from his own conjecture the Author wrote, whence the more recent other one is taken, that by the example of Christ she was wont to wash the feet of the poor with humble devotion, and to administer the blessing of food to all; as with the elegant graver of Raphael Sadeler it is expressed in the "Pious Bavaria" of Matthew Rader: more freely interpolated, who when in the Notes of Baronius at the name of St. Rupert he had read, the Virgin's birthday to be kept on the day before the Kalends of July, not having inspected the Martyrology itself, wrote that she then was venerated by the Roman church, which hitherto is not done. In that Life also which we omit, the Author's own invention seems to be; that, as St. Rupert, having suffered a refractory Clergy and people, departed from Worms; so also St. Erentrudis, declining quarrels, discords, rivalries, departed with him; after, among those Nuns, whom she ruled with all gentleness and wisdom; the enemy of all good men, bearing grievously the unanimity of the holy minds, oversowed tares, and prevailed iniquity and trouble in the midst of them. Ends that Life with these words: "But she was buried in the crypt of that same monastery with becoming honor, and there she is venerated especially by Virgins in virginal beauty. But the signs of miracles, which through her merits the Lord deigned to do at diverse times in many men, on account of the multitude we cannot commend to writings; but neither the things seen nor heard can those present enumerate, but in all his benefits the giver of all good things, let God be praised and glorified, forever and ever. Amen."

[6] Her monastery at Salzburg Wiguleus Hund, in his Metropolis, vol. 2, p. 594, says the monastery of Erentrudis is situated outside the walls of Salzburg, on a neighboring hill, and surnamed with the name of Nuns'-Mount; which anciently called Cella, by the tumults of war, by fire and plunderings devastated, was rebuilt and as if anew founded by Henry II the Emperor; and was completed in the year 1041, in which the high altar with two, situated in the crypt, by the Lord Balduin the Archbishop of Salzburg was consecrated. restored by St. Henry. These things Hund from Bruschius; and he notes, that the year 1041 of the Dedication does not agree with the Chronicle of the Archbishops of Salzburg (because indeed Balduin was then not yet Archbishop) yet he does not correct the error. But his Commentator, as it were, Christopher Gewold, in his Additions to Hund writes, that St. Henry the Emperor, in the year 1024 having died, restored the desolate monastery, and caused it through Hartwic the Archbishop in his presence to be dedicated. And this is more probable. For how would the restoration, by St. Henry, in the opinion of all at least begun to be made, have lasted up to the year 1041, or to the Bishopric of Balduin? Adds also there Gewold: That also at the time of the dedication already mentioned, St. Erentrudis from her first tomb, in which hitherto she had reposed, with great reverence and honor raised, into the crypt of the temple, where today she is seen entombed, was translated.

[7] The same Gewold, from a manuscript book about the first construction of that same monastery, thus writes: "Blessed Pontiff Rupert began, together with the counsel and will of the Lord Theodobert the Duke, in the upper castle of the town of Juvavum to build a church and monastery for sacred Virgins, to dwell in the service of God and of holy Mary the mother of the Lord:" and further there are described the individual things, which the same Duke handed over there for the sustenance of the handmaids of God, and for the reward of his father Theodo, whom the same Rupert converted to the faith of Christ and baptized; which there can be read; as also by name the Abbesses, who indeed after Erentrudis, up to the restoration of the Monastery, none became known: those that followed thereafter, up to the year 1200, are not all reviewed; the rest are better arranged.

[8] The miracles after death, nay after the restoration first began to be written at the beginning of the 14th century, by a certain Caesarius, the relation of the ancients he learned (these however to no note of time are bound; up to no. 15) and by certain experience he found, in the space of twenty-eight years, in which in the divine Office in the said monastery he toiled; whence to each of these its year is ascribed: but because Canisius found all things in his Codex under this title, "There follow the miracles," without that title which the Author himself wrote, it comes about that there is lacking, whence the name might be understood of the Archbishop or Abbot, by whose order Caesarius studied to compile the below-written. For from the beginning indeed the same was both Archbishop and Abbot of the monastery of St. Peter, founded by St. Rupert; but Frederick, the 23rd in order, with great

provision and addition being made to the monastery in Tithes and other revenues, in the 32nd year of his Pontificate, of Christ 984, constituted as Abbot of that same Monastery the Monk Tito; from whom the twenty-third, Rudpert, about the year 1297 consecrated, up to 1314 presided: but the Archbishop from the year 1289 was Conrad, to 1312; in whose time all these things written we judge.

[9] with notice of the crypt dedicated in the year 1305. Among the more recent miracles more notable to us is that which in the year 1305 is narrated to have been done at no. 16: because it proves the day of the deposition of St. Erentrudis, which also is the dedication of the crypt at Nonnberg, not only by the annual Office by the Nuns, but also by the cessation of servile works to have been celebrated by the citizens. I therefore here delay not over the defect of the old Martyrologies and Calendars written in Bavaria, where the name of Erentrudis is not found, complains Arnold Wion; as also the Carthusians of Cologne seem not to have found a place of cult in them, for their Additions to Usuard (otherwise indeed they would not have omitted to name him) noting only the memory and name of Erentrudis, Virgin Abbess, kinswoman of St. Rupert Bishop of the Vangiones. The author of the manuscript Florarium; "At the city of Viviers the deposition of Erentrudis the Virgin." More clearly Philip Ferrari; "At Salzburg St. Erentrudis Virgin and Abbess": whom follow the Benedictines, Wion, Menard, Bucelinus, and in German Peter Canisius with a long eulogy; "Her holy body reposes at Salzburg on the Nuns'-Mount, where her glorious memory is celebrated." The Translation September 3. Wion also on the 3rd before the Nones of September has the Translation of St. Erentrudis the Abbess; and that (as he says in the Notes) from a certain index of the Church of Salzburg, for the canonical Hours to be duly performed, printed in the year 1585: whence I understood, that she there is celebrated with nine Lessons: which I know not whether it should be understood of that Translation, of which there is mention in the miracles at no. 5, or indeed of another more recent and unknown to us.

MIRACLES

written by Caesarius the Chaplain of the Monastery, From the edition of Henry Canisius.

Erentrudis, Virgin, Abbess of Salzburg in Bavaria (St.)

BHL Number: 2589

BY CAESARIUS THE MONK.

[1] Since in those things which are recognized to pertain to the divine cult, the glory and praise of the Saints, not a malicious, but rather a benign and devout interpretation and diligence is to be applied; The Writer's Preface. whence, Father and Lord reverend, I Caesarius, your Chaplain at Nonnberg, in your pious and most holy desires from the marrow rejoicing together, not by rash daring, but armed by the benign command of your piety; the miracles of holy Erentrudis the glorious Virgin, as far as the smallness of my talent suffices, to write have striven; as from the relation of the ancients I learned, not only of the Nuns, but also of outsiders worthy of faith; as also already by twenty-eight years, in which in the divine office in the said monastery I toiled, by certain experience I found; the below-written I studied to compile.

[2] The Emperor Henry cured of epilepsy. First and principally about the cure of St. Henry the Emperor, surnamed the Pious; who, as is said, God permitting or disposing, fell into the disease of frenzy or epilepsy, and by much solicitude of physicians could not be cured; the thresholds also of many Saints having been visited, at last to the tomb of St. Erentrudis he came; and having obtained the effect of the desired health, the Relics of that same glorious Virgin he asked to be imparted to him, and the same in a golden ring he caused to be enclosed; on his neck he carried [it] continually, and meanwhile the motion or rage of the said infirmity he never felt, and to the aforesaid tomb two golden spurs he offered; for which a certain court in Austria, called Vladniz, procured, still serves that very Monastery.

[3] It happened also, no long time being interposed, that the Monastery of Nonnberg, with the adhering cloister, which Bl. Rudbert together with Duke Theodobert founded (which then was situated in the place where now is the cell of the Priests, as appears in the ruin of the walls and their foundations) by fire was wholly destroyed; and at the same time the aforesaid Emperor a certain bath entered, and the Relics being lost, into the often mentioned infirmity relapsed; and the aforesaid monastery's burning in spirit he knew, and that blessed Mary and holy Erentrudis through him the ruin of the aforesaid monastery wished to be repaired, and to a better state and site reduced. Whence it came about, that the pious Emperor, the infirmity urging him, rebuilds the monastery of St. Erentrudis to the tomb of St. Erentrudis devoutly returned; and seeing the place desolate and by fire deformed, vowed to omnipotent God, to the blessed and glorious virgin Mary, and to holy Erentrudis, that if from the before-mentioned sickness he were relieved, the monastery from the foundation he would rebuild, at once at the tomb of St. Erentrudis: and with tears and fervent prayer prostrate, to his former health was restored; and as he had vowed, the monastery with the adhering cloister, where now it is situated, in a beautiful scheme, as clearly appears, he built: and gave Ehrenprechtstorff, situated in Longee or Longaw, with all its appurtenances, to the honor of omnipotent God and the said Patronesses St. Mary the Virgin and St. Erentrudis, to the Nuns there serving God.

[4] The structure both of the monastery and of the other offices being also completed and built, whose body is translated. and the church being dedicated in honor of the often said Patronesses, the Emperor himself being present, by Bl. Hertwic the Archbishop, the body of holy Erentrudis, from the old tomb, into the crypt where now she reposes, with the highest honor was translated, namely placed in the middle of the altar; although before by Bl. Virgilius, very many miracles attesting, it had been canonized and translated.

[5] One snatching of her Relics, is blinded At which last translation also was present Mazalin, Abbot of St. Peter, brother of Wiradis the Abbess; who presumptuously snatched the breastbone of St. Erentrudis; wherefore with blindness at once struck, and all who were present, terrified and overshadowed by a certain darkness, as by an eclipse, stood compunct. The tomb and miracles of St. Mazalin: But Mazalin himself, acknowledging his guilt, with tears and sighs to Bl. Erentrudis supplicated, that she would forgive him, that her venerable Relics by rash daring he had presumed to handle; promising to God and holy Erentrudis, if his former sight by her merits and suffrages he obtained, the Abbey he would resign, and an eremitic life choose. He at once illuminated, the Abbey resigned, and on the Mount of Goats up to his death a solitary life led, and in the said monastery, around the crypt of St. Erentrudis, at the North door he was honorably entombed; who also is reputed a Saint, because many benefits at his tomb to the sick and afflicted the divine mercy deigns to perform. It is read also of Mazalin himself, that when he had now died, the peasants placed him on a cart, and wishing to convey him to the church of St. Peter, however much the oxen were goaded to the straight way, yet with a quick step to the monastery of St. Erentrudis they hastened, because, living, there he had chosen his burial.

[6] It is reported indeed of the aforesaid man Mazalin, that when his sister Wiradis the Abbess, the Nuns subject to her rigidly governed, in these, that an infant, handed over to a demon by its mother, and them she herself, by a praiseworthy way and honest conversation, always preceded; a certain one of the Nuns conceived, and when now the time of giving birth was at hand, anxious and exceedingly troubled, not knowing by what way to cover the crime committed, and how she might escape the Abbess's severity, and the punishment to be inflicted on her; and in prayer prostrating herself in the chapel of St. Vitus, and pouring out most abundant tears, with anguishes and tribulations on every side enwrapped; not only about her pressure and impending grief, but also about the birth what she would do; and so in prayer placed she fell asleep. And when she had waked, and no consolation human nor divine found; into desperation led, the malign spirit being invoked, she said: "O devil, bring me help in this greatest tribulation, and I will give you this offspring which I shall bring forth, with body and soul into damnation eternal." Meanwhile the demons rejoicing were passing the cell of the man of God Mazalin, in the hermitage passing the night in prayer: and he asked of them, whither they went? They answered: "A great business we have." He said: "Go, and the business being done, by the living God I command you, return to me." They going found the boy already born; whom they snatched, and returned to the man of God, narrating to him what was done; how the woman unhappy and desperate, to them the boy with body and soul handed over into their power.

[7] Hearing this, Mazalin, trusting in the Lord, commanded them, and by him adjured the boy being brought to him, by the living and true God, that they should leave the boy to him. They at once the boy in the cell of the holy Man throwing, flying on their way, departed. But that same night the man of God arose, taking the boy; and in the morning before dawn came to the gate of the monastery, awaiting, when the Abbess would come and unlock the doors, which by herself on each day and night she did. When she came and saw her brother, much astonished she marveled, saying to him; "To what have you come, brother?" He answering said to the Abbess: "On account of your austerity and malice, which you exercise on your subjects (showing her the boy) this soul into damnation and the power of the devil had been handed over; but through the grace and mercy of God, I snatched it from the hands of the malign spirits;" narrating to her all in order the deed done: and he commanded her in the virtue of God and of holy obedience, that henceforth more mercifully, by the example of Bl. Benedict, with her subjects she should act, and mercy above judgment exalt. And he caused the boy at once to be baptized, and handed to a nurse to be reared, until in the Catholic faith he could be instructed, and more fully informed: he took care to have him educated. but the man of God to the hermitage to his cell with joy returned, giving thanks to omnipotent God for the rescue of the boy's soul from diabolical servitude.

[8] Nor must it be passed over in silence, how the glorious Patronesses, the blessed Virgin and St. Erentrudis, the place and possessions of their monastery by their suffrages continually defended, and from the raging deceits of wolves often took care to rescue. In the times of the Lord Frederick de Walchen, Archbishop of Salzburg of venerable memory, it happened, that about the bounds or limits of the salt mines, and about the salt pit, within and without, on the mountain Dürrnberg, between the Lady Diemud de Belben, Abbess at Nonnberg, on the one part, and the Lay-brothers of Salem, on the other part, a contention very great had arisen: on account of which contention, at the command of the aforesaid Archbishop, and the counsel of the wise, One perjuring himself to the prejudice of the monastery, it was ordained, that the Masters of the mountains with their rods and measures should faithfully test, which part to the other would be prejudicial. When this had been done, a certain Brother Albert, unmindful of his own salvation, the said Masters of the mountains by the malice of his fraud corrupted, that the rods drawn from the pit indirectly they should place, to the prejudice of the church of Nonnberg. These things being done, the aforesaid Archbishop with his Nobles and Magnates ascending the mountain, fixed a term for the parties, to decide the discord of the contention. But on the night preceding, the aforesaid Abbess Diemud,

with the older Nuns of the Convent, approaching the altar of St. Erentrudis, with lamps measured that altar by the square, and thence formed candles; which kindled, in prayer prostrate, up to the consummation of the lights, in devotion persevered: but in the morning, taking up the journey, the said mountain they ascended. The often said Bishop, personally presiding over the judgment, the Nobles and all who were present standing by, first called Brother Albert aforesaid, and required of him, suddenly he dies. whether well and faithfully and without fraud, both in the pit and in the field through the land, the rods or measures were placed. The Brother himself, on bended knees before the Archbishop, his hand raised and the oath enjoined upon him, said; "So may God help me, and the blessed Virgin, and holy Erentrudis." This said and the oath unfinished, he fell at the feet of the Archbishop often said, and died: and all being stupefied and marveling, with mourning he was carried away, about to receive the reward of his fraud by the just judgment of God.

[9] A leper is healed. A certain man infected with leprosy, many seeing, and rebuked by many, in clear light the crypt of St. Erentrudis entered; and at her tomb prostrate in prayer, for a great space of the day there prayed, and sound in body and with cheerful face, before all left the church; an itching also in the place where he was healed, like scales, was found by many, wishing the miracle to investigate, the mercy of omnipotent God and the merits of St. Erentrudis with worthy praises extolling.

[10] A certain woman of Hallberg, wife of Conrad, called Taurstayn, a citizen of Hall, wounded with pustules about the loins, so much that to walk she could not, but only was carried hither and thither on a litter. Likewise the same woman, very puffed up, also with elephantine leprosy struck, by no art of physicians, likewise a wealthy matron, because she was rich, nor by physicians, summoned from the universities, nor by Master Simon, a Monk of Raitenhaslach, whose name there is still held famous, could be freed. But by the counsel of certain persons induced, to Teting carried in a certain cart, she came to a certain holy woman, who had the grace of healings; and full of works of mercy, who very many oppressed by diverse infirmities healed. From the poor she received no reward, but freely fed them, and bestowed such medicine as she could. But the aforesaid leprous woman, when to the house of the holy woman she had come, in a chair before the doors she placed her before her; and not much considering her, in the presence of Master Simon and her other household, said: "Lady, all the medicines of the world, directed to the Saint by another Saint. expended for you, to you cannot profit: but I counsel that you go to Salzburg to the holy Virgin Erentrudis, there you can obtain health, divine grace cooperating:" because the said woman all the sick to her flowing together, whom she could not cure, to the thresholds of the Saints directed. The aforesaid leprous woman indeed, carts being prepared, by the counsel of the blessed woman, to St. Erentrudis proceeded; and there for three days in prayer and tears devoutly persisting, healed was she from the pustules and leprosy, by the mediating Savior's grace and mercy, the merits of St. Erentrudis the glorious Virgin suffraging for her. She indeed with joy to her own home returned, and after the death of her husband for many years survived; but impoverished exceedingly, although before she abounded in riches, in our times was seen; and known by many, among men and her fellow-citizens, sound and unharmed up to her death she lived.

[11] There was a certain merchant, of the house and family of St. Erentrudis, named Martin, who had vowed to God and to blessed Mary and holy Erentrudis, that he would not contract marriage with any, except with her who was of the patronage of the church of Nonnberg. He, however, forgetful of the vow, contracted with another; and plague indeed recognizing in himself, compunct he returned to his heart; he thought that God, on account of the breaking of the vow, permitted this to happen in him. And coming to the altar of St. Erentrudis, Likewise another violator of pledged faith. with weeping and inmost groanings supplicated Bl. Erentrudis devoutly for recovering health. The Lady Mary also being called, the Abbess, of pious memory, about the transgression committed pardon he asked. She, moved by compassion, poured devout prayers over him, and from God and the blessed virgin Mary and holy Erentrudis pardon for him asked; who to his house went, and a trace of leprosy no longer appeared in him.

[12] A certain colonus of the monastery often said, of the family of the church, named Frederick of Alchaming of the territory of Tittmoning, with seven others wishing to visit the threshold of the Apostles Peter and Paul, passing Salzburg, came to the altar of St. Erentrudis, where her sacred bones are stored, himself and his companions devoutly recommending to Bl. Erentrudis; and having set out, came into the Latin land with the others associated with him. They, when near Ferrara in a certain inn they had passed the night, came robbers, the house they besieged, plotting the death of the pilgrims. Hearing which the pilgrims, within themselves groaning and weeping, exceedingly straitened were, nor did any of them dare to speak even the least word; and so through the whole night anxious and disturbed they were. Travelers freed from robbers, But the day approaching, when the aforesaid Frederick was seized by sleep, came to him a certain most beautiful Lady in religious garb, saying: "Rise: why do you sleep?" He said: "Who are you?" She answered: "I am she, to whom at Salzburg you devoutly committed yourself. Go secure, you and your companions, and fear not." This vision narrating to the brothers, who rising through the gratings and chinks looked out, they saw no one nor heard, and on their way joyful and unharmed departed, to God and to Bl. Erentrudis the due thanks rendering.

[13] An injury, inflicted on the monastery, is punished, A certain widow, called Ruzenlacherin, young and beautiful, by the favor of the Dukes of Bavaria, the possessions of the monasteries of St. Peter and Nonnberg, in the forest, which is called Weylhart, through the noise of a secular judgment, unduly against God and justice occupied; to the Ecclesiastical court by Papal authority cited she scorned to come; but at last by the spiritual judge excommunicated and denounced, persisted in her malice. And when on a certain day she sent a messenger or herald to service to be extorted, the peasant's little horse wishing for herself as a pledge violently to lead away; the peasant crying after him, said; "Leave here the horse until after the tillage of the fields, may God help you and St. Erentrudis." And the herald answered: "What do you say of your Erentrudis?" The poor man's horse he led away; and as he passed the gate of the court, from his horse he fell, and struck by the judgment of God expired. But the woman above noted, not even thus compunct, afterward, although young, persisting in her contumacy, in a short time ended her life.

[14] A certain smith Conrad, called Rohtschmidt, of the city of Salzburg, on the right side struck with apoplexy, and for thirteen weeks of the office of hand and foot was destitute, the help divine and of many Saints continually imploring. Finally, when grief and trouble and most sharp compunctions exceedingly urged him, to Bl. Erentrudis he ran, her suffrages confidently seeking: and whither bodily he could not go, by the devotion of his mind he was carried. On a certain evening therefore, Vespers being finished, when the pains of the sick more than usual are sharpened, a candle of his own stature through his mother and his wife to St. Erentrudis he directed. To whom, when the entrance of the monastery did not lie open, at the door in prayer prostrating themselves, Bl. Erentrudis suppliantly invoking. Then the light being kindled, not much delaying, because night was at hand, but thence withdrawing; before they returned to the lodging, the man's grief sensibly was mitigated; and the same night and the following day health returned, and the office of hand and foot, and also of the whole side, The smith is freed from apoplexy. by the mercy of God and the merits of St. Erentrudis, was integrally restored; the benefit also bestowed on him for more than nine years he concealed, St. Erentrudis more frequently visiting, and according to his measure venerating her.

[15] In the year of the Lord one thousand three hundred and eighteenth, Master John of Paris, in the art of medicine competently instructed, A physician cured of pain in the arm by touching the tomb. for a year and a half and more, in his right arm, by a pain vehement and continuous was tortured. When neither by any remedy through his own solicitude, nor by the counsel of others could he be relieved; at last by the counsel induced of the devout, the altar of St. Erentrudis the Virgin, where bodily she reposes, in person approaching, himself in prayer, as devoutly as he could, prostrated. The first and second time the health most desired not having obtained, because often hope is deferred, that desire may grow; the third time returning, moved by ampler hope, with a pious purpose approaching the altar, with such words the Saint of God he addressed: "O blessed Erentrudis, glorious Virgin, if true it is, what about you is said, sung, and read; I pray, from this languor and pain deign me to free;" and with his arm touching the altar, he was healed, and with joy to his own home returned.

[16] Likewise in the year of the Lord 1305, a certain woman, named Haylbirg, a washerwoman and very poor, on the day of the deposition of St. Erentrudis, A violator of the feast, and therefore contracted, because then also is the dedication of the crypt at Nonnberg, the solemnities of the Masses being finished, approaching the altar, St. Erentrudis thus addressed: "You know, most sacred Virgin, that I am much needy and very poor, and I have many clothes today to be washed; whence I beseech you in the Lord, that you be not angry with me, because I cannot be free." She withdrawing, after dinner began to wash the clothes, as on other days she was wont to do: and when the last garment she was wiping, her right hand was bent. She, anxious and exceedingly troubled, wept bitterly, not knowing what she would do. But on the next morning, armed with hope of divine mercy, she approached the altar of St. Erentrudis, and thus prayed: "O holy Erentrudis, for the joy, in which you delight before God with all the Saints and Angels of God, she is healed. gladden me most wretched sinner, because grievously I have offended and sinned against you. Whence I beseech you, forgive me, and restore to me of my hand the former health." And this said, placing the curved hand upon the altar, she was healed: and as a sign of this healing, below the joint of that hand at once appeared a certain knot under the skin, of the size of a large nut, for two years, and it decreased and increased according to the course of the moon. But the woman aforesaid, eager for health, again running back to St. Erentrudis, supplicated, that by her merits and suffrages she might deserve to obtain full and desired health; which also was done; the knot disappeared, and this woman, still surviving, the scar shows to the eye to all wishing to see it.

[17] Likewise in the year of the Lord 1309 a certain woman

of Salzburg, her sins demanding it, deprived of sight for four years, A sinner, unable to behold the sacred Host, is freed. although men and other creatures of this world fully she saw, the body of Christ, neither on the altar, nor for curing the sick in the hand of the Priest could she see, wherever she turned. At last in the fifth year, led by the Spirit of God, whenever the hour and day was taken, and as often as the Divine offices were celebrated, at St. Erentrudis for a whole year she devoted herself; the Saint of God devoutly supplicating, that with God for her she would deign to intercede. And when her devotion she continued, hearing Masses; in the sixth year, in the hand of the Priest, celebrating on a certain Lord's day, around the often said altar, the body of Christ she saw; and afterward always, the grace of God suffraging for her and the merits of St. Erentrudis; for the benefit bestowed on her, to God and Bl. Erentrudis giving such thanks as she could, the place more frequently she visited; the miracle also done in the same, as far as she could, concealing.

[18] Likewise the great-great-grandfather of the Radekars, called Gerhoh, being a young man, vowed to Bl. Erentrudis every year for a census five denarii he would give: who did this for some years, namely five; but afterward began to grow tepid. Whence it came about, that one Nun, called Harschicherin, familiar to him, A defrauder of the due census is deprived of his goods. on one of the nights heard to St. Erentrudis what he promised, or he will fare ill." She in the morning called the said Radekar, asking of him, what he had promised to St. Erentrudis; who confessed about the five census denarii up to the end of his life. Then the Nun, what she had heard, to him narrated. He withdrawing, the words of this warning heeded not. A second time came the voice, and to the same Nun said: "Tell Gerhoh, that to Bl. Erentrudis he pay what he promised, or damage greatest he will sustain." She, as before, forewarned him, but he by no means cared. A third time came the voice to the same: "Tell Gerhoh, because now admonished twice, his promise to fulfill he has neglected, and the vow he has transgressed, now the time is fulfilled: and Bl. Erentrudis a longer delay will not give him, that he himself will receive damage, which he himself and all his kindred will never recover:" which also was done. In a short while indeed afterward the castle of Matsch he lost, and of all his goods was despoiled, and also of his possessions, horses, cattle, and other movables and immovables whatsoever. These things in the time of the Lady Diemud de Velben the Abbess were begun: but in the time of the Lady Elisabeth the Abbess, the grandsons of the said Gerhoh, returning to their heart, one girl of military rank, called Dymud Tuntingerin, upon the altar of St. Erentrudis freely offered, for the repayment of the said census.

NOTES OF D. P.

labored with such a disease; yet these things, not only by these writings, but also by ecclesiastical records are confirmed, and in a very ancient figure on the altar of St. Erentrudis expressed are seen. I add, that the whole life of St. Henry, spent in the Duchy up to the death of Otto III, lies obscure: but this restoration seems to have been made, or at least begun, in the year 1000, when is noted the first year of Wiradis the Abbess. Let the dedication of the church and the translation of St. Erentrudis, of which below, first have been made to Henry, not only King elected, but also Emperor crowned.

ordained in the year 767, died about 784, and is venerated on November 27. Acts are had, but for the most part after his death; the Life touched on very briefly: nor do they teach anything else than his entrance to the Bishopric and the instruction of the Carinthians; so that neither there is it strange, that this about the elevated St. Erentrudis, equally as about St. Rupert, is kept silent.

in the year 1024. And so it seems consequent, that not long after the Crown of the Empire was received, he completed the work begun, through the dedication of the church and the translation of the Saint.

de Wallen) from the year 1270 to the year 1284.

the latter number on the stone was worn away, or by the typesetter omitted, or the Episcopal series deceives, in noting the time of the Archbishop.

h Whether she, who in the Catalogue after the restoration is the fourth, as having died about the year 1059? For no order of time here is kept: and another Mary none is found.