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The Medieval Church · c. 1289–1302
The Herald of Divine Love
Legatus Divinae Pietatis
Gertrude the Great · 1256–c. 1302
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What it is
Visions received at Helfta, centred on the heart of Christ opened to the soul, and told with an unusual note of confidence rather than penitential dread.
Why it lasted
The fountainhead of devotion to the Sacred Heart, and the work of a woman thoroughly trained in Latin, scripture, and the liturgy.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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