History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . g invited to preach in Latin before Henry IV., whichhe did, and his eloquence was much admired. During his stay in England he visited St. Albans, wherehe charmed the monks with his knowledge of their patronsaint, to whom the famous cloister at Selje was dedicated. The latter part of the fourteenth century saw the founda-tion of a new religious order, the only one to which theNorth gave birth—the famous order of the Holy Saviour,which was due to that most remarkable woman St. Britta, or Birgitta, was
History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . g invited to preach in Latin before Henry IV., whichhe did, and his eloquence was much admired. During his stay in England he visited St. Albans, wherehe charmed the monks with his knowledge of their patronsaint, to whom the famous cloister at Selje was dedicated. The latter part of the fourteenth century saw the founda-tion of a new religious order, the only one to which theNorth gave birth—the famous order of the Holy Saviour,which was due to that most remarkable woman St. Britta, or Birgitta, was born in the year 1303 or father was Birger Pederson, the lagman of Finstad, inSweden, and her mother Ingeborg Bengtsdatter, of parents belonged to well-known families, and hermother was connected with the Swedish royal her earliest childhood she seems to have manifested a * See Wylies History of England under Henry IV., One of the most recent accounts of the life of St. Birgitta isDen Hellige Birgitta, by A. Brinkmann, Copenhagen, ST. BIEGITTA. 259 very devout and mystical frame of mind, and even at eightyears of age is said to have had visions. At thirteen she was married to Ulf Gudmarson, who washimself only five years older than his very youthful marriage turned out to be in every way a happy one,as Ulf was of a very similar disposition to his wife. Theirfamily consisted of four sons and four daughters, one ofwhom was afterwards the famous St. Katharine of the year 1340 Birgitta and her husband went on apilgrimage to the far-famed shrine of St. James of Compos-tella. On the way back he fell very ill in Flanders, and onhis recovery vowed (with Birgittas approval) to renouncethe world, and enter upon a religious life. This he did andjoined the monastery of Alvastra, but he did not longsurvive, and died in 1344. It would seem that it was at this time, that the naturalmysticism of Birgittas mind became much
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