Saint Birgitta
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Saint Birgitta see Bridget of Sweden, Saint .
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Saintly celebrations.(Ear To The Ground)(St. Birgitta is now one of the three patron saints of Europe.)(Brief Article)
For A Change; 12/1/2003; Wetterfors, Alison; 119 words
; ... ecumenical service at the castle of Vadstena to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of another great Swedish woman, St Birgitta. The Pope recently made her one of three woman patron saints of Europe. A mother of eight, it was only after her husband's ...
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St Birgitta of Sweden
The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2003; Anderson, Wendy Love; 562 words
; ... of this elusive fourteenth-century saint since the 1954 translation of Johannes ... high-quality Birgittine scholarship. In St Birgitta of Sweden, Moms has chosen to emphasize ... historical and political aspects of Birgitta's career. The volume opens with a ... and cultural milieu into which the saint ...
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Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II
The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2002; McGinn, Bernard; 557 words
; Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II. Edited by Carl-Gust ... twelve-volume critical edition of the texts of Saint Birgitta begun some fifty years ago. The impact ... extraordinary seer in recent scholarship. Birgitta and her younger contemporary, Catherine ... shortest of the nine books that contain ...
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Claire L. Sahlin. Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/2002; Kalinke, Marianne E.; 878 words
; ... vocation as mediatrix of the word of God; to analyze the relationship between Birgitta's charismatic authority and clerical authority; and to examine Birgitta's role in the debates concerning the ability of women to mediate the divine word (x). The study throws light on Birgitta's success in her role as ...
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Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book III
The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2000; McGinn, Bernard; 591 words
; Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book Ill. Edited by Ann-Ma ... 1998. Pp. 251. SEK 231 paperback.) St. Birgitta of Sweden (c. 1303-1373), like so many ... Hildegard of Bingen two centuries before, Birgitta was an aristocrat who carved out a special ...
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Swedes highly regard Catholic saint.(Religion)
The Washington Times; 4/25/1998; Lindstrom, Lois; 518 words
; ... interest in a 14th-century Catholic saint. While Swedish families have long named their daughters after St. Birgitta - and derivations such as Britt, Inga ... the supernatural views of the female saint has surprised many. Throughout her life St. Birgitta wrote down personal revelations ...
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Saint's remains transported aboard SAS flight.(Brief Article)
Nordic Business Report; 5/16/2003; 112 words
; NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-16 May 2003-Saint's remains transported aboard SAS flight(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) aircraft flew part of St. Birgitta's rib from Stockholm to Kalmar on Tuesday (13 May). The ... package. St. Birgitta, also known as Brigid, is Sweden's only ...
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Saint's remains transported aboard SAS flight.
Airline Industry Information; 5/16/2003; 98 words
; ... INFORMATION-(C)1997-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) aircraft flew part of St. Birgitta's rib from Stockholm to Kalmar on Tuesday (13 May). The head of Kalmar's provincial museum, Maria Malmloef, was in possession of the remains during the 45-minute flight. The nearly inch-long relic ...
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Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417.(Book review)
Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2007; Rollo-Koster, Joelle; 1168 words
; ... contemporary witnesses who discussed events with some mental inventiveness: saints, poets, and visionaries. Pedro de Aragon, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Constance de Rabastens, Pierre de Luxembourg, Vincent Ferrer, Marie Robine, Ursulina ... crisis, and the words and the images he/she used. She begins her ...
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Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417
The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/2006; Harvey, Margaret; 586 words
; ... the works of Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth of Schonau, and John of Salisbury), to two chapters on saints and visionaries (Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Pedro of Aragon, Constance of Rabastens, Peter of Luxembourg, Vincent Ferrer, Marie Robine ...
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Saint Bridget of Sweden
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... to Rome. Her account of her numerous visions was widely read during the Middle Ages. St. Bridget is patron of Sweden. She is also called Birgitta. Feast: July 23 (formerly Oct. 8). Bibliography: See biography by J. Jorgensen (2 vol., tr. 1954).
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Verner von Heidenstam
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... 1915), which established him as one of Sweden's lyric poets. In the historical novels The Charles Men (1897-98, tr. 1920), Saint Birgitta's Pilgrimage (1901), and The Tree of the Folkungs (2 vol., 1905-7; tr. 1925), he evoked a sense of national continuity ...
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