The Vision Text of St. Thomas an der Kyll: Medieval Cistercian Nuns and the cura animarum in Trier Diocese

In the Admoniciones morales per visiones date, a deceased abbess appears to the prioress of an unnamed abbey of Cistercian nuns, giving advice for the prioress to convey to the rest of her community, e.g. avoiding vices, attending to the Divine Office, ruminating on the life of the Son of God. Evidence suggests that the text was likely composed in the thirteenth century, not before 1237, and that the nunnery referred to is St. Thomas an der Kyll. The anonymous text was likely a co-production between St. Thomas an der Kyll and the monks' community of Himmerod. St. Thomas was mother-house to two Cistercian nunneries - Hoven and Walberberg. In the Admoniciones, nuns seem responsible for their own cura animarum. The text could have been used by St. Thomas's abbesses and prioresses to provide pastoral care for nuns' communities, just as it could have been used by Himmerod's monks in their pastoral care of nuns.