DOROTHEA of Montau (*Montovienis*), Blessed. – Born at Montau (near Marienburg, Prussia) on 6 Feb. 1347, died at Marienwerder on 25 June 1394. At the age of 19 she married Albrecht of Danzig, by whom she had nine children; in 1389 she went to Rome for the Jubilee of 1390, remaining there until Easter in the hospice of S. Maria della Consolazione. After losing her husband and children (one daughter became a Benedictine), she moved to Marienwerder, where on 2 May 1393, with the permission of the Chapter and of the Teutonic Order, she founded an hermitage near the Cathedral. There, as a “recluse,” she led an extremely austere life, visited by illustrious persons and by the poor seeking comfort and counsel, and favoured with mystical graces.
Her canonization process remained incomplete; yet the people immediately venerated her as a wonder-worker and heavenly protector of the land of the Teutonic Order. Popular cult. Feast on 25 June; in some places on 30 Oct. The writings concerning the Blessed, almost all composed by her confessor Johannes, number ten; for their various editions, cf. BHL, I, pp. 350–51. The various *Vitae*, and some other writings, in *Acta SS. Octobris*, XIII, Paris 1883, pp. 472–84. The *Revelations* (in *Speculum b. Dorotheae auctore Ioanne Marienwerder* [ed. F. Hipler], Brussels 1885; the entire Latin portion was anticipated in *Analecta Bollandiana*, 2 [1882], pp. 383–472; 3 [1883], pp. 113–40, 408–48; 4 [1885], pp. 207–51). This work, of high mystical value, bears the title *speculum* because it treats of seven graces granted to D., which are well represented by the qualities of the lily.