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St Birgitta of Sweden
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St Birgitta of Sweden. By Bridget Morris. [Studies in Medieval Mysticism, Volume 1.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 202. $60.00.)
St Birgitta of Sweden is long overdue-not the work itself, which represents the culmination of over two decades of research, but the bibliographic position it fills. Bridget Morris's volume is not only the first English-language biography of this elusive fourteenth-century saint since the 1954 translation of Johannes Jogensen's opus, but also the first biographical synthesis in any language to take advantage of the last few decades' ...
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THIS EUROPE: Scientists check DNA to find Sweden's only saint
; ...believed to contain the remains of St Birgitta, the country's only saint, to settle...the capital, Stockholm, in 1374. St Birgitta, the founder of the Birgittine...remains of 10 to 15 people, including St Birgitta's daughter, Katarina, have been...
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Claire L. Sahlin. Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy.(Book Review)
; ...subject of Claire Sahlin's monograph, Birgitta of Sweden, is one of the most extraordinary...depravity. Sahlin seeks to demonstrate Birgitta of Sweden's understanding of her vocation...to analyze the relationship between Birgitta's charismatic authority and clerical...
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The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, I: Liber caelestis, Books I-III.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
; The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, I: Liber caelestis...eight books of the Revelationes of St Birgitta (1303-73), books I-VII of which...foundation for the broader discussion of St Birgitta as a major medieval writer, whose...
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Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II
; Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II. Edited by Carl-Gust...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...
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Claire L. Sahlin, Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy.(Book Review)
; ...visionaries of late medieval Europe, Birgitta of Sweden is only now becoming widely...to speed the process, and to introduce Birgitta's religiousness at full length, together...historical and cultural context. Certain of Birgitta's teachings, like those relating to mystical...
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; ...most vexing problems concerning St. Birgitta of Sweden (1302/3--1373) and her...activity of her father-confessors. Birgitta's visions are mediated to us through...Alfonso Pecha's arrangement of Birgitta's revelations into the Liber celestis...
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Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book VIII: Liber celestis imperatoris ad reges
; Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book VIII...very Catholic figure of St. Birgitta (c. 13031373). The Swedish...fascinating of medieval seers. Birgitta was, indeed, an international...her prophetic activity.) Birgitta's life and revelations...
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Shrine of mystic opened for DNA tests
; SWEDEN: Scientists opened a shrine yesterday believed to contain the remains of St Birgitta, Sweden's only saint, and removed bone samples for DNA tests. The tests could settle claims about where the skull and bones of...
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Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book III
; Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book Ill...251. SEK 231 paperback.) St. Birgitta of Sweden (c. 1303-1373...Bingen two centuries before, Birgitta was an aristocrat who carved...fourteenth century in Italy But Birgitta lacks Catherine's powerful...
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A Communion of Martyrs.
; ...celebration of a sort of martyrdom -- for St Birgitta dedicated her life to the reform...He also prayed at the shrine of St Birgitta in the Church of Sweden parish...the basilica.(3) At the centre of St Birgitta's life was a fervour for the unity...
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