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title: SANTA BRIGIDA

subject date: 2019-08-27

caption: SANTA BRIGIDA (June 1303 - 23 July 1373), Brigida Birgersdotter, Swedish religious and mystical, founder of the Order of the Most Holy Savior, proclaimed saint by Pope Boniface IX on 7 October 1391. Born into an aristocratic family, she had eight children ( among which the future Saint Catherine) from the happy marriage with the noble Ulf Gudmarsson, both pervaded by faith and devoted to works of charity; welcomed among the Franciscan Tertiaries, with them Brigid founded a small hospital and provided assistance to the poor. Widowed in 1344 she devoted herself entirely to the spiritual life, and according to the devotional tradition had new mystical visions of Jesus (who commissioned her to found a new monastic order), of the Virgin Mary and of some Saints; the content of their revelations on the mystical renewal of the Church and on divine designs for humanity is gathered in eight volumes that the saint dictated to her spiritual fathers. In 1349 he went to Rome for the recognition of his new Order, beginning a series of pilgrimages that took her to the Holy Land, to the places where Christ preached, and then see her return to Rome, where he finally died. In the traditional Martyrology it is remembered on 8 October, and its Translation on 7 July. Co-patron of Europe with Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa Benedetta of the Cross, the Roman Martyrology of 2001 fixes its liturgical memory on 23 July, the day of death (Dies Natalis, birth to heaven). Miniature engraving of the 15th century Italian manuscript of its "Revelations", France, 19th century

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

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subject century: XIV

subject epoch: Medioevo

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