page_title: Skevikarna
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Skevikarna / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Skevikarnas gemensamma gravsten/minnessten på Johannes kyrkogård i Stockholm
context_page_description: Skevikare, or Skevikarna, was a Swedish Radical Pietist Christian community founded in ca. 1722 by the "Eriksson brothers", two Swedish Army officers.
  After initial prosecution by the Lutheran Orthodox authorities, they went on exile in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands during 11 years. In 1745 they were allowed to return to Sweden, where they established the community on the island Värmdön in the Stockholm archipelago outside of Stockholm.
  After having been accepted by the authorities, they received many visitors, including two of Sweden's kings, showing them the respect they were denied for so many years. After Pietism was accepted as a legitimate expression of Lutheranism by the state church authorities, the Skevikare community eventually disestablished around 1830.
  The literature produced by the community remains preserved by the Royal Library in Stockholm.
context_section_description: There is also a large cave-like formation on Värmdö island, where the Skevikarna used to gather for prayer and meditation. This cave was used in a scene in Ingmar Bergman's movie The Seventh Seal (1957).
  After the movement's demise, the farm was handed over to the local authorities, and the memory of the Skevikarna faded away. However, about half a century later, a newly arrived priest to the island was handed an old handwritten journal by a parishioner. When the priest sat down at home later in the evening, to read the book, he found that the Skevikarna had recorded their exile story, and he later made it into a small booklet.
  Much of their handwritten literature is preserved at the Royal Library in Stockholm and in Uppsala.
caption: Memorial stone for the Skevikarna outside of Church of Saint John in Stockholm.
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