Bl. Margaret Ebner

Feast Day: June 20

Blessed Margaret Ebner was born in 1291 at Donauworth in Bavaria and made her profession at the Dominican Monastery of Maria Medingen in 1306.

By her own account her true conversion to God began in 1311 when she was twenty years old. Soon after, she became seriously ill and was bedridden for nearly thirteen years. These years of suffering and prayer brought her to the heights of contemplative union with God. She became one of the more prominent of the Rhineland mystics, known to both John Tauler and Henry Suso. She left an account of her mystical experiences in her Spiritual Journal and wrote a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer.

She died on June 20, 1351.