A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bridget
BRIDGET, a Swedish Princess, Wife of Ulfon, Prince of Nericia. Died at Rome, 1373.
After the death of her husband, she went to Rome, where she founded the order of the monks of St. Saviour, to which she gave rules, written in thirty-one chapters. Towards the end of her life, she went to Palestine, to visit places sanctified, in her idea, by the holy men, who had formerly inhabited them. There is a volume of revelations, under her name, in eight books. She was canonized in 1415.
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