The Prophesying Nun of Dresden notes of the prophetic manuscripts. These writings, according to Baschera's novel, were mentioned for the first time by a certain Abbot Nicolas Holb in 1808 in Vienna. The author of the manuscripts, written in the form of letters, was a German nun and clairvoyant whose actual name is not known. Of her, it is only known that she was “a pious Religious born in Dresden in 1680 and died in 1706” and that “ . . . her convent was on the banks of the Elbe” River. Some of the letters were written in German, some more in Latin and
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