Margareta Ebner
Margareta Ebner | |
|---|---|
| Religious; Mystic | |
| Born | 1291 Donauwörth, Duchy of Swabia |
| Died | 20 June 1351 (aged 59–60) Mödingen, Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 24 February 1979, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 20 June |
| Attributes | Dominican habit |
Margareta Ebner (1291 – 20 June 1351) was a German professed religious from the Dominican Nuns. Ebner – from 1311 – experienced a series of spiritual visions in which Jesus Christ gave her messages which she recorded in letters and a journal at the behest of her spiritual director; she was ill for well over a decade as she experienced these visions. The backdrop of much of Ebner's religious life was the bitter fighting between Pope John XXII and Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Bavarian, in which she and her convent faithfully backed Louis.
Ebner's beatification cause began in the 1600s well after her death though stalled for a time until 1910 when the initial process was concluded; Pope John Paul II beatified Ebner in 1979 after confirming her longstanding "cultus" – or popular devotion to her – rather than recognizing a miracle as would be the norm.