Queen of all Saints T-Shirt

St. Mathilda was the daughter of Theodoric, a Saxon Count. At an early age she was placed in the monastery of Erfurt under the care of Maud, her grandmother, who was Abbess of the monastery which she had entered after the death of her husband. She remained in the convent until her marriage, in 913, to Henry the Fowler. He Duke in 916 on the death of his father, and in 919 he was chosen to succeeded Conrad as King of Germany. The pious Queen adorned the throne by her many virtues.