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The Vision of St Bridget: The Risen Christ, displaying his wound from Longinus, inspires the writing of Saint Bridget. Detail of initial letter miniature, dated 1530, probably made at Syon Abbey, England, a Bridgettine House. At the age of ten, Bridget had a vision of Jesus hanging upon the cross.
In Toryglen, on Glasgow's southside, there is St. Brigid's RC parish. [66] In Hebridean mythology and folklore, one of the most prominent figures featured in ethnomusicologist Margaret Fay Shaw's iconic 1955 book Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist is St Brigid of Kildare, about whom many local stories, songs, and customs are recorded. [67]
Of these authors, the best known belonging to Vadstena are perhaps Margareta Clausdotter (abbess 1473, died 1486), author of a work on the family of St. Bridget (printed in "Scriptores Rerum Svecicarum", III, I, 207-16), and Nicolaus Ragvaldi, monk and General Confessor of the abbey (1476–1514), who composed several works.
St. Bridget's Church (Finnish: Pyhän Birgitan kirkko, Swedish: Sankta Birgitta kyrka) was a medieval stone church located in the Finnish municipality of Vihti in the Uusimaa region. Built, according to some estimates, between 1500 and 1520, the church now lies in ruins.
St. Bridget's granddaughter, Lady Ingegerd Knutsdotter, was Abbess of Vadstena from 1385 to 1403. Upon her death on 14 September 1412, direct descent from St. Bridget became extinct. This opened the medieval concept of "Bridget's spiritual children", members of the order founded by her, to be her true heirs.
Briga is sometimes confused with Brigit of Kildare daughter of Dubhthach, the famous St Brigid whose feast day was 1 February [9] St Brigid, daughter of Doma, whose feast day was 7 February [10] or the earlier St Brigid, daughter of Neman, also associated with Kildare and said to have been veiled by St Patrick, whose feast day was 9 March [11] (Seathrún Céitinn's History of Ireland 1841 ...
Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373), mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks Saint Bríga , (fl. 6th century), founder of the monastery of Oughter Ard in Ardclough, County Kildare Education
The medieval church, is believed to be dedicated to the Swedish St Bridget, who was canonised in 1391. [4] Research by the Penwith History Group has found that the earliest reference to Bridget ″of Sweden″ is an April 1928 article in The Cornishman newspaper by Canon Jennings, the vicar of Madron with Morvah and repeated by Walter Frere, the Bishop of Truro on the centenary of the ...