Birgitta of sweden biography of alberta

St. Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter) (1303–1373) was canonized on the 7th of October 1391. She founded The Order of the Most Holy Savior (Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris), usually called the Birgittine order.

Her main work is The Revelations (Revelationes), written in eight books in Latin.

Birgitta was born in 1303 in Uppland, Sweden, possibly on her father’s estate in Finsta.

Birgitta of sweden biography of alberta

At 13 years of age, she was married to Ulf Gudmarsson, who later became lawman in Närke in central Sweden. They had eight children, most notably St. Katarina of Vadstena. Birgitta and Ulf made pilgrimages to Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim, Norway and to Santiago de Compostela.

After the second pilgrimage, in the year 1346 her husband Ulf died.

It was in 1344 that Birgitta is recorded as having her first revelation. Shortly after, she started reciting them or writing them down in Swedish, whereupon her confessor, Prior Petrus Olavi, translated them i