Catherine of Sweden

Its life

Catherine belonged to the royal family of Sweden. His/her mother was holy Brigitte of Sweden and her father Ulf Gudmarson. They had eight children.

She was high in a convent until her marriage with Edgar Lydersson, invalid, which she looked after with devotion.

In 1350, it joined his/her mother with Rome where this one had been established since it was widowed. It is at the time of this voyage that she learned death from Edgar, her husband. She then decides to also remain she with Rome until the death of her mother.

Both lengthily visited the churches and the tombs of the martyrs, and were devoted to long exercises of mortification. They were also going to look after the patients of the hospitals, and lived in poverty and the austerity.

It returned then in Sweden to bury the skin of her mother to the convent of Vadstena of which it will become abbess.

Catherine will return to Rome, for the papal recognition of the Ordre of Holy Brigitte and for the canonization of her mother, who will take place only in 1384.

She wrote a book of devotion, heading Consolation of the heart (in medieval Swedish Siælinna tröst , or Själens tröst in modern Swedish) whose specimen gone back to 1407 always exists.

Sources

Life of the Saints for the every day of the year - Abbot L. Jaud Turns - Mame - 1950.

External bonds

Biography and spirituality of Holy Catherine of Sweden
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