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Bridget of Sweden

Born: c. 1303
Died: 1373

Swedish noblewoman and visionary who founded the Order of the Most Holy Saviour (the Bridgettines) and spent her last decades in Rome; her Revelations, recorded by her confessors, were among the most widely read visionary writings of the late Middle Ages.

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Revelations of St. Bridget on the Life and Passion of Our Lordc. 1370

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Revelations of St. Bridget on the Life and Passion of Our Lord

Selections from the visions of Bridget of Sweden on the life and passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with her prayers on the passion, translated from the Antwerp Latin edition of 1611; private revelations, presented as devotional reading rather than doctrine.

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