Born ca. 1230, the recluse Wilbirg of Saint Florian (d. 1289) hailed from a region located in modern-day Upper Austria and, like her counterparts across Western Europe, during a life marked by visions and bodily ascesis sought and acquired access to devotional texts. She is celebrated in a Latin vita, which testifies to the (probably) few letters she wrote to spiritual friends, although unfortunately not a single one of these compositions survives.