Lonely never again

Nobody knows what happened to the little girl’s parents. Nobody is even sure where they were from. She was five years old and absolutely alone in the world.

The Benedictine nuns who ran a local school took the little girl into their care and named her after their abbess Gertrude. The abbess’ biological sister (also a member of the abbey) ran the school and took special care of little Gertrude.

With such special care, little Gertrude truly grew in wisdom and grace. She would join the abbey, would be blessed with amazing visions and would write tremendous works of spirituality.

St. Gertrude died in her mid-forties on November 17 at the very start of the 14th century. By the end of the 17th century, the Church throughout the world would be celebrating the feast day of this saint who had once been a lonely little girl.