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St. Mechtilde St. Mechtilde- Born Matilda von Hackeborn-Wippra, blood sister of the Abbess Gertrude von Hackeborn, monastic herself. Quite plausibly the model for Matelda in Dante's "Purgatorio… Gertrude the Great, c. 1301, and Mechtilde, c. 1298 Gertrude the Great, c. 1301, and Mechtilde, c. 1298- Essay on these two spiritual authors, whose lives were bound together.