Blessed Margareta Kratz

Also known as

• Margaret Kratz
• Margaretha Kratz

Memorial

• 4 May

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Premonstratensians nun in the monastery of Engelport, Germany, entering the Order in 1450, and living her faith for the next 82 years, even working with the poor during a famine in 1530 – at the age of 100.

Born

• c.1430 in Scharfenstein, Germany

Died

• 1532 of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Margareta Kratz”. Saints.SQPN.com. 4 May 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-margareta-kratz/>