BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, Saint.

by Saint Bridget Of Sweden

£4,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Third Latin edition of the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden, first published 1492, and the second to be printed by Koberger, preceded by the edition of 1500. St. Bridget was a fourteenth-century Catholic mystic and founder of the Bridgettine order. She is the principal saint of Sweden. She experienced visions from a young age, including of Christ s Passion and Nativity, and Purgatory. Her vision of the Christ child emitting light had a profound effect on the depiction of the Nativity in Western art, and her revelation of the sufferings of Christ during the Passion led to the immensely popular set of prayers, the Fifteen O s of St. Bridget. . . ..The Revelations contains letters from Cardinal Juan de Torquemada relating to the veracity of Bridget s revelations, and the bull of canonization passed by Boniface IX, as well as a prayer to Bridget. There follow eight books of revelations, which include the mystical visions and visionary dialogues between God, Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, and angels and the devil, along with her prophecies and occasional criticism of the clergy. Bridget s graphic, bodily descriptions of the Passion occur in Books I-II. She then returned to the subject when recounting her pilgrimages to Rome and the Holy Land in Book VII, which also includes the single most influential description of Christ s Nativity, which emphasised the Virgin s role and depicted the Christ child emitting a supernatural light. The eighth book is a set of p

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