Jutta from Huy

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Jutta von Huy (* 1158 in Huy (Belgium) ; † January 13, 1228 ibid) was a medieval benefactress, Christian mystic and Roman Catholic blessed who worked in the province of Liège .

life and work

Jutta, the daughter of a senior employee of the Bishop of Liège , was married in 1171 at the age of 13 by her father (against her will) and gave birth to three children. After the death of her husband in 1176, she successfully fought against a new marriage (with the support of Bishop Rudolf von Zähringen ) and chose the status of a consecrated widow (in parallel with the consecrated virgin ). Until 1181 she raised her two sons (a third had died early), then she worked as a nurse in the leprosy center in Huy until 1191, built a hospital and gathered helpers around her. 1191 they settled in the (now in it for her Villers Abbey walled occurred) father built hermitage and stayed in it 37 years until her death as Inklusin . She received the last sacraments from the abbot of the Floreffe monastery, Jean von Huy, who then commissioned the monk Hugo von Floreffe to write the vitae of this holy woman. His Middle Latin text, which is now classified as extraordinary and recently translated into English and French, shows that Jutta belongs to the ranks of medieval mystics (in the manner of Lutgard von Tongern or Margareta Porete ).

Jutta's eldest son, Henri de Stenay (* 1173), entered Orval Abbey and was abbot there from 1225 to 1228. Her second son, Eustache, entered the Trois-Fontaines monastery in 1195 (after years of licentiousness) .

Editions of the work of Hugo von Floreffe

  • De B. Vita Ivetta sive Iutta, vidua reclusa, Hui in Belgio, in: Acta Sanctorum . January. Volume 1, January 13, Paris 1867, 863–887 (Latin)
  • The life of Yvette of Huy , translated into English by Jo Ann McNamara, Toronto 1999 (English)
    • Living saints of the thirteenth century . The lives of Yvette, anchoress of Huy, Juliana of Cornillon, author of the Corpus Christi feast, and Margaret the Lame, anchoress of Magdeburg, Turnhout 2011 (English)
  • Vita Ivettae De Hoyo. Vie de Juette de Huy, translated and edited. by Paul Verdeyen SJ, in: Analecta Cisterciensia 64, 2014, pp. 136–311 (Latin and French)

literature

  • Robert Klopfer, 'Die selige Jutta, Reklusin zu Huy', in: Cistercienser-Chronik 51, 1939, pp. 6-9
  • Columban Spahr, 'Ivetta', in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche , Vol. 5, 1960, p. 825
  • Paul Verdeyen SJ, Introduire Juette (1158-1228). Introduction, texte critique et traduction, in: Analecta Cisterciensia 64, 2014, 115–135, 312–313 (introduction and chronology of Jutta's life)
  • Kurt Ruh , history of occidental mysticism. Vol. 2. Women's mysticism and early Franciscan mysticism , Munich 1993 (Chapter 15: Mystical women's life in the Diocese of Liège, pp. 85–110)
  • Peter Dinzelbacher , German and Dutch Mysticism of the Middle Ages , Berlin 2012, p. 114 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Jutta from Huy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivetta; Juetta from Huy; Juette de Huy; Yvette de Huy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval benefactress, Christian mystic, and Roman Catholic blessed
DATE OF BIRTH 1158
PLACE OF BIRTH Huy (Belgium)
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1228
Place of death Huy (Belgium)