page_title: Margareta Ebner
section_title: Beatification
hierarchical_section_title: Margareta Ebner / Beatification
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Maria Medingen (Mariä Himmelfahrt) in Mödingen (Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau) des ehemaligen Dominikanerinnenklosters (heute Provinz Maria Medingen der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen), Grab von Margareta Ebner in der Ebnerkapelle
context_page_description: Margareta Ebner was a German professed religious from the Dominican Nuns. Ebner – from 1311 – experienced a series of spiritual visions in which Jesus Christ gave her messages which she recorded in letters and a journal at the behest of her spiritual director; she was ill for well over a decade as she experienced these visions. The backdrop of much of Ebner's religious life was the bitter fighting between Pope John XXII and Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Bavarian, in which she and her convent faithfully backed Louis.
  Ebner's beatification cause began in the 1600s well after her death though stalled for a time until 1910 when the initial process was concluded; Pope John Paul II beatified Ebner in 1979 after confirming her longstanding "cultus" – or popular devotion to her – rather than recognizing a miracle as would be the norm.
context_section_description: The beatification cause opened in Augsburg in an informative process in 1686 though this seemed to be stalled at some stage until it was later closed centuries later in 1910; theologians had to investigate each of her writings and letters in order to determine those writings adhered to official doctrine. Such contraventions in her writings would have suspended the cause though the theologians approved these on 14 March 1952 having found no fault in them. Historians assigned to the cause also approved it on 12 June 1963 before the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and their consultants approved the cause on 9 May 1978. The C.C.S. alone then approved the cause on 7 November 1978.
  Ebner was beatified on 24 February 1979 after Pope John Paul II confirmed her longstanding and local "cultus" – or popular devotion" – which meant that no miracle would be required for her to be beatified as is the norm.
caption: Ebner's tomb in her old convent.
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