Βριγίτη της Σουηδίας

Η Bridget of Sweden (1303 - 23 Ιουλίου 1373 ; γεννημένη ως Birgitta Birgersdotter, επίσης Birgitta of Vadstena, ή Saint Birgitta ; σουηδικά : heliga Birgitta) ήταν αγία και ιδρύτρια των Bridgettines, μιας θρησκευτικής τάξης για καλόγριες και καλόγερους, μετά τον θάνατο του επί είκοσι χρόνια συζύγου της. Έξω από τα σύνορα της Σουηδίας, ήταν γνωστή ως Princess of Nericia και μητέρα της Catherine of Vadstena. (Παρόλο που ονομαζόταν Bridget of Sweden, δεν ήταν μέλος της σουηδικής αριστοκρατίας.)

Είναι μια από τους έξι σημαντικότερους αγίους στην Ευρώπη, μαζί με τους Βενέδικτο τον εκ Νουρσίας, Αγίους Κύριλο και Μεθόδιο, Αικατερίνη της Σιένα και Έντιθ Στάιν.

Παραπομπές

Βιβλιογραφία

Πηγές 

 Duffy, Eamon (1992). The stripping of the altars: Traditional religion in England, c.1400 – c.1580. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
 Schiller, Gertrud (trans. Seligman, Janet) (1971). Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. I: Christ's incarnation, childhood, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, works and miracles, (English trans from German). London: Lund Humphries.

Εκδόσεις
Saint Birgitta's Revelaciones, that is, her Revelations written in Latin, appeared in critical editions during the years 1956 to 2002 under the aegis of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. I. Ed. by C.-G. Undhagen. Stockholm 1978.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. II. Ed. by C.-G. Undhagen† and B. Bergh. Stockholm 2001.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. III. Ed. by A.-M. Jönsson. Stockholm 1998.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. IV. Ed. by H. Aili. Stockholm 1992.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. V. Ed. by B. Bergh. Uppsala 1971.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. VI. Ed. by B. Bergh. Stockholm 1991.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. VII. Ed. by B. Bergh. Uppsala 1967.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones Lib. VIII. Ed. by H. Aili. Stockholm 2002.
 Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones extravagantes Ed. by L. Hollman. Uppsala 1956.
 Sancta Birgitta. Opera minora Vol. I. Regula Salvatoris Ed. by. S. Eklund. Stockholm 1975.
 Sancta Birgitta. Opera minora Vol. II. Sermo angelicus Ed. by. S. Eklund. Uppsala 1972.
 Sancta Birgitta. Opera minora Vol. III. Quattuor oraciones Ed. by. S. Eklund. Stockholm 1991.

Αγγλικές μεταφράσεις :
 The revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, translated by Denis Searby, with introductions and notes by Bridget Morris, 4 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006–) [Volume 1 has Books I–III; Volume II has Books IV–V; Volume III has books VI–VII; Volume IV will have book VIII]
 Birgitta of Sweden, Life and selected revelations, edited, with a preface by Marguerite Tjader Harris; translation and notes by Albert Ryle Kezel; introduction by Tore Nyberg, (New York: Paulist Press, 1990) [Includes translations of The life of Blessed Birgitta by Prior Peter and Master Peter, and Books 5 and 7 of Revelationes, and the Four prayers from the Revelationes.]
 Saint Bride and her book: Birgitta of Sweden's revelations, translated from middle English, introduction, by Julia Bolton Holloway, (1992)
 Arne Jönsson, St. Bridget's Revelations to the Popes : an edition of the so-called Tractatus de summis pontificibus, (Lund: Lund University Press, 1997)

Μονογραφίες
 Aili, H. & Svanberg, J., Imagines Sanctae Birgittae. The Earliest Illuminated Manuscripts and Panel Paintings Related to the Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. Stockholm: The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. 2003.

Περαιτέρω μελέτη

Εξωτερικοί σύνδεσμοι

 Complete online facsimiles of her Revelations at the Swedish Royal Library: MS. A 5a, MS. A 5b, MS. A 44, MS. A 110
 Lewis E 240 Revelations at OPenn
 Saint Birgitta website maintained by Vadstena Municipality
 Text of The Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden in English: 1 or 2
 Saint Birgitta of Sweden, with a link to her Revelationes in Latin
 St Bridget of Sweden Grade School & Parish, Van Nuys, California
 Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish, Cheshire, Connecticut
 The Order of the Most Holy Saviour of Saint Bridget 
 The Syon Breviary –  The Daily Office of Our Lady – Now in English, commemorating 600 years of Syon Abbey.
 Two engravings by the Pseudo-Dürer for The Revelations from the De Verda collection: 1 and 2
 Saint Bridget of Sweden at the Christian Iconography web site.