Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament, our place in Heaven is raised forever.
- Saint Gertrude the Great
I praise, adore, bless and thank you to the best of my ability for your wise mercy and your merciful wisdom! For you, my Creator and my Redeemer, have sought to curb my stiff-necked obstinacy under your sweet yoke with the remedy best suited to my infirmity.
- Saint Gertrude the Great
Birth: January 6, 1256 Eisleben, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire
Death: c. 1302, Helfta, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Canonized: 1677 by Pope Innocent XI
Feast Day: 16 November
Patron Saint for Souls in Purgatory
