Saint Judith of Prussia

Also known as

• Judith Kulmsee
• Jutta of Kulmsee
• Jutta of Prussia

Memorial

• 5 May

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Born to the nobility. Lay woman. Married with children. Widowed when her husband died on a Crusade to the Holy Land. Judith then made financial provision for her children, sold off her property, and spent her remaining years as a hermitess in the territory of the Teutonic Knights, whose grand-master was a relative.

Born

• at Sangerhausen, Thuringia (in modern Germany)

Died

• 12 May 1260 at Kulmsee, Prussia (in modern Germany) of natural causes

Patronage

• Prussia

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Judith of Prussia”. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 May 2012. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-judith-of-prussia/>