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Starved and severely abused. It’s what one Brazoria County woman says happened to her 51-year-old brother who has Down Syndrome, and it all happened at the hands of the man who was supposed to be taking care of him.

Benedictine nun who trained St. Gertrude the Great. She was born to a noble family in Heifta, Saxony, and was placed in a convent at age seven. Mechtildis was a mystic, and aided St. Gertrude with her Book of Special Graces or The Revelation of St. Mechtildis. She died on November 19 and was ...