EBNER, CHRISTINA. - Dominican mystic, b. in Nuremberg on 26 March 1277, d. at Engeltal on 27 Dec. 1356. Daughter of pious patricians, at the age of 7 she devoted herself to the poor; at 12 she joined a sister in the monastery of Engeltal. A generous and passionate soul, she carved the name of Jesus on her breast and vigorously subdued her self-love. From 1314 she was consoled by visions and ecstasies, which she began to note down in writing at the wish of her confessor, the Dominican Conrad of Füssen, from 1317 until 1324; her fellow sisters continued [the record] from 1344 to 1352. She was known to the "Friends of God," she spoke to the flagellants in 1349, and in 1350 she blessed the emperor Charles IV together with the retinue that knelt before her. Her tomb fell into oblivion in the 16th century.

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BIBL.: G. W. K. Lochner, Leben u. Geschichte der C. E., Nuremberg 1872 (inadequate ed.); H. Wilms, Geschichte der deutschen Dominikanerinnen, Dülmen 1920, pp. 116-119.

Angelo Wala

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