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Description:St. Bridget of Sweden died in 1373 and the English-speaking world has waited almost six hundred years for this book of Johannes Jorgensen. Both of the North and both rooted deeply in the tradition of Christendom, he could not have found a life more suitable to write about, not she a better one to write it.St. Bridget was a very medieval saint. The men and women of that age, despite its rising nationalism, were citizens of One World, Christendom, and at home in any part of it. Bridget sainted it mightily from Sweden to Spain, from Italy to Palestine. She was ever and everywhere the grande dame more conscious of the duties of her state than of its privileges; ever and everywhere the mother, now matching her prayers against the wily lust of the Queen of Naples in a battle for the soul of her son, now matching her prayers and her strength against the corruption of a whole world in a battle for the souls of every mother's sons. She was always the mystic lifted beyond earth in intimacy with God, always the practical reformer working to restore the papacy to Rome, peace to Europe, holiness to all. She thundered with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet and her love of the papacy only sharpened the vigor of her rebukes to the Pope.Bridget was in may senses a failure. She saw the Pope return to Rome but he did not stay. She did not see peace in Europe. She did not see the Church reformed. She did not find a place in the monastic Order which she founded. But her greatness did not wait for recognition. She died in July 1373 in Rome, and in December the first documents for her canonization were presented. Eighteen years later she was declared a saint, no-one having worked harder to bring this about than her daughter St. Catherine--sancta pro sancta laborare.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Saint Bridget of Sweden. To get started finding Saint Bridget of Sweden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 664

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Longmans Green and Co.

Release: 1954

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Description: St. Bridget of Sweden died in 1373 and the English-speaking world has waited almost six hundred years for this book of Johannes Jorgensen. Both of the North and both rooted deeply in the tradition of Christendom, he could not have found a life more suitable to write about, not she a better one to write it.St. Bridget was a very medieval saint. The men and women of that age, despite its rising nationalism, were citizens of One World, Christendom, and at home in any part of it. Bridget sainted it mightily from Sweden to Spain, from Italy to Palestine. She was ever and everywhere the grande dame more conscious of the duties of her state than of its privileges; ever and everywhere the mother, now matching her prayers against the wily lust of the Queen of Naples in a battle for the soul of her son, now matching her prayers and her strength against the corruption of a whole world in a battle for the souls of every mother's sons. She was always the mystic lifted beyond earth in intimacy with God, always the practical reformer working to restore the papacy to Rome, peace to Europe, holiness to all. She thundered with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet and her love of the papacy only sharpened the vigor of her rebukes to the Pope.Bridget was in may senses a failure. She saw the Pope return to Rome but he did not stay. She did not see peace in Europe. She did not see the Church reformed. She did not find a place in the monastic Order which she founded. But her greatness did not wait for recognition. She died in July 1373 in Rome, and in December the first documents for her canonization were presented. Eighteen years later she was declared a saint, no-one having worked harder to bring this about than her daughter St. Catherine--sancta pro sancta laborare.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Saint Bridget of Sweden. To get started finding Saint Bridget of Sweden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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