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Leonard P. Hindsley

Leonard P. Hindsley is professor emeritus of Providence College where he taught German, Theology, and Western Civilization for thirty years. He also served as pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Westport, Massachusetts. He authored many articles and books including Margaret Ebner: Major Works, The Mystics of Engelthal, and The Revelations of Adelheid Langmann. A book on St. Dominic’s nine modes of praying and a translation of Christina Ebner’s Revelations are forthcoming.

Titles by Leonard P. Hindsley

  • The Revelations of Adelheid Langmann by Leonard P. Hindsley

    The Revelations of Adelheid Langmann

    by Leonard P. Hindsley

    Numerous books entitled Revelations were written by Dominican nuns and mystics of the fourteenth century. Adelheid Langmann (1306-1375), a nun of the Monastery of Engelthal in Bavaria, composed her own Revelations recording events of her life and mystical experiences with the Trinity, Christ, the Virgin, and angels and saints. Also included in this volume is The Prayer, a meditation on the events of the life of Christ and petitions connected to them. Excerpts from her correspondence with the Cistercian Abbot, Ulrich of Kaisheim, show her connection to a wider circle called the Friends of God. Adelheid’s writings reveal an intense spiritual life in a Dominican monastery in the context of the religious and political turmoil of her times. Given the confusion of her age, Christ revealed to her: “. . . no one can do anything more dear to me than to pray for sinners.” She dedicated herself to praying for the souls in purgatory, the conversion of sinners and the strengthening in faith of all who believe.

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  • The Sister-Book of Engelthal by Christina Ebner Leonard P. Hindsley

    The Sister-Book of Engelthal

    by Christina Ebner, Leonard P. Hindsley

    In Leonard P. Hindsley’s translation of The Sister-Book of Engelthal by Christina Ebner, the Dominican nuns of Engelthal were lost in profound prayer while chanting the words of the prophet Isaiah, “I have loved you with an eternal love, therefore I have drawn you to me with my mercy.” Then they fell down unconscious and entered into the mystical realm.
    This event marked the beginning of their spiritual journey as a community and as individuals. The founding of the monastery and the tales of sisters, brothers, and priests were set down by the nun, Christina Ebner, so that others could learn of the wondrous action of God’s grace in the lives of ordinary people in the fourteenth century. This book presents the first text from the Sister-Book genre to be rendered into English.

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