Blessed Jutta of Thuringia
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(Franciscan Media) Born in Thuringia Sangrhausen (modern day Germany) Jutta was born into nobility living in luxury and power.
Truth, virtue and devotion to their Christian faith was always of prime importance to Jutta and her husband. — On their way to make a pilgrimage together to the Holy places in Jerusalem, Jutta’s husband died while on their journey, the newly widowed Jutta, after taking care to make financial provisions for her children, resolved to live the remainder of her life completely devoted to serve Jesus Christ.
After selling all of her expensive clothes, jewelry and furniture, Jutta became a Secular Franciscan, taking on the simple garment of the Order. — For the rest of Jutta’s life, she was completely devoted to others, caring for the sick (particularly of Lepers) tending to the needs of the poor who she visited in their places of abode, together with helping the crippled and blind who she shared a home with.
Many of the people of Thuringia laughed at how this once distinguished Woman born into nobility now spent her time but Jutta saw the ‘Face of God’ in the poor and felt honored to render whatever assistance she could provide.
About in the year 1260 shortly before Jutta’s death, she built a small a small dwelling (hermitage) and prayed unceasingly for the conversion of the non-Christians in Germany. — Jutta has been Venerated for centuries as the Patron of Prussia today known as Germany.
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