St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals ' (Matthew 18:7)...
The Exercises of Saint Gertrude: Virgin and Abbess, of the Order of St. Benedict is a book written by Saint Gertrude, a 13th-century Benedictine nun and mystic. The book is a collection of spiritual exercises and meditations that were practiced by Saint Gertrude and her community...
Sainte Gertrude de Helfta, encore appel e Gertrude la Grande (n e le 6 janvier 1256 et morte le 17 novembre 1302) tait une religieuse et mystique allemande du XIII si cle. Vers l' ge de cinq ans Gertrude fut confi e aux bons soins des b n dictines du monast re d'Helfta, pr s...