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Mechtild von Magdeburg (Mechthild, of Magdeburg)
lived c. 1212-1285

Mechtild von Magdeburg was a 13th-century mystic, Beguine and Benedictine nun. She was born c. 1212, and her familiarity with German court culture suggests that she was born to a noble family. Mechtild arrived in Magdeburg in 1230, and joined a Beguine community there. In 1270, Mechtild left the Beguines and entered a Benedictine convent at Helfta. She had begun to have visions at the age of 12, but did not record them until much later in life.

OMSB Records by Mechtild von Magdeburg:

• Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda, ed., Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Lewis, Gerturd Jaron, trans., The Mystical Jubilus II: An Example from Mechthild of Magdeburg (Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Translations from Monastic Sources, 3.4: 327-337., 1986).