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the poor and the ill, which was the purpose and focus of their monastic existence, not self denial and humility characteristic of monastic life in later eras, and struck a balance between charitable works and contemplative ways of life. Kulzer reported that the wealth of convents during this era was distributed to the poor people who came to their doors daily, so the rules of claustration never prevented the nuns who lived there to minister to the poor and needy. Caesarius "praised great love for children", which she taught to the nuns at
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she had left her home to follow him to
Salzberg, so he agreed to intercede for her to join him after he died. Shortly after Rupert died in March 718, Caesarius reported that Erentrude, while interceding for him, saw a vision of him telling her it was time for her to die, and she died three months after he did, on 30 June 718. She was buried in a grave among the rocks at Nonnberg. Kulzer reported that Erentrude's fame for healing miracles and intercession grew after she died.
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on a nearby mountain. He was healed of his blindness, but kept his promise. According to legend, when he died, his body was supposed to be transferred to St. Peter's for burial, but the animals used for transport, "driven by a secret power", went to
Nonnberg instead, and he was buried at the church there, near Erentrude. According to Kulzer, archeological evidence later found a grave in front of the left entrance of Erentrude's crypt, which may contain Mazzelin's remains.
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attended the ceremonies. He admired her and wanted a relic of her, so he secretly took "a particle of her body", a chest bone. To the astonishment of everyone present, he was immediately struck blind; when he admitted his theft, he promised to resign as abbot and live the rest of his life as a hermit
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of her in it; when he lost it, the leprosy returned, but when he rebuilt her monastery, he was cured "at once and for life". When the church was rededicated in 1024, Erentrude's remains were taken from the first tomb and transferred, "with great honor and reverence", into the new church's crypt. Her
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Caesarius' biographical sketch describes the work
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reports that she might have been his sister. Much of what is known about
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Austrian Nonnberg Abbey commemorative coin. The reverse side shows the crypt dedicated to Erentrude in Nonnberg Abbey, with her statue. Her feast day is celebrated on 30 June.
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Erentrude was born at the end of the 7th century, probably in present-day
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Germany. Several nuns from Worms might have come with her to Nonnberg. She taught them and the other nuns under her care "with all gentleness and wisdom".
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oldest nuns at the convent and the people in the area. According to writer Linda Kulzer, Caesarius "sketches a thoroughly loving and attractive image of
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