Lukardis von Oberweimar

Who they were

Lukarda was a Cistercian nun of the abbey of Oberweimar, near Weimar, who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries. Born in 1276, she entered the community at just twelve years old and was soon put in charge of the infirmary, caring assiduously for the sick. Afflicted by many sufferings, which she bore with great patience and firmness of spirit, she was comforted by visions of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist.

Devoted to the Passion of Christ, she received the stigmata during a vision of the Saviour, who told her she would live only thirty-three years; she was granted the gift of healing, and many were cured through her intercession, including two blind people who recovered their sight through cloths stained with the blood of her wounds. She died on 22 March 1309, and though she was honoured with local veneration immediately after her death, it disappeared with the Reformation and was never revived.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as blessed since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

Cistercian nun of Oberweimar known for nursing the sick, said to have received the stigmata and worked healings; her local veneration lapsed with the Reformation and was never revived.

The cause

Connected on this site

• John the Baptist Saint
  “Afflicted by many sufferings, which she bore with great patience and firmness of spirit, she was comforted by visions of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist.” — this site's research