Agnes Blannbekin

Agnes Blannbekin (; and her strange and provocative expressions of faith.

Life Blannbekin was likely born in Plambach, Austria to a peasant family; due to her Life and Revelations being the only source of information from her directly, little is known with certainty. Her surname, which is also sometimes spelled Blanbakin, is a derivation of the name of this village (i.e., Plambachen). In around 1260, she joined the Third Order of Saint Francis in Vienna;

During services and prayers in her early teenage years, Blannbekin began to hear voices which explained spiritual mysteries.

Her visions are typified as distinctive to high medieval devotionalism and used "familiar teaching techniques such as enumerating twelve glories of the Virgin, five types of confessors, and four ways of receiving the eucharist, made memorable through vivid color symbolism and animal imagery," though marked by the eroticism ingrained in them.

Blannbekin's contemporaries were quick to show contempt for her, and she carried the reputation of being "odd" even when she held respect. In one story, she was derided for compulsively bowing toward a basement window as she walked through town, but regained respectability after a stolen Eucharist was discovered in that said basement; however, occasions like these led to her feeling "wrongly accused and defamed". she joined the Third Order of Saint Francis in Vienna, Similarly, she described drinking a "refreshing spiritual drink" from the spear wound of Jesus.