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See also:BRIDGET, BRIGITTA, BIIGITTA, OF See also:SWEDEN, See also:SAINT (c. 1302-1373) , the most celebrated saint of the See also:northern kingdoms, was the daughter of See also:Birger Persson, See also:governor and lagman (provincial See also:judge) of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the See also:country. In 1316 she was married to Ulf Gudmarson, See also:lord of Nericia,' to whom she See also:bore eight See also:children, one of whom wasafterwards honoured as St See also:Catherine of Sweden. Bridget's saintly and charitable See also:life soon made her known far and wide; she gained, too, See also:great religious See also:influence over her See also:husband, with whom (1341–1343) she went on See also:pilgrimage to St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James of Compostella. In 1344, shortly after their return, Ulf died in the Cistercian monastery of Alvastra in See also:East Gothland, and Bridget now devoted herself wholly to See also:religion. As a See also:child she had already believed herself to have visions; these now became more frequent, and her records of these " revelations," which were tanslated into Latin by See also:Matthias, See also:canon of See also:Linkoping; and by her See also:confessor, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter, See also:prior of Alvastra, obtained a great See also:vogue during the See also:middle ages. It was about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that she founded the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St Saviour, or See also:Bridgittines (q.v.), of which the See also:principal See also:house, at Vadstena, was richly endowed by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Magnus II. and his See also:queen. About 1350 she went to See also:Rome; partly to obtain from the See also:pope the authorization of the neW order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed See also:mission to elevate the moral See also:tone of the See also:age. It was not till 1370 that Pope See also:Urban V. confirmed the See also:rule of her order; but meanwhile Bridget had made herself universally beloved in Rome by her kindness and See also:good See also:works. See also:Save for occasional pilgrimages, including one to See also:Jerusalem in 1373, she remained in Rome till her See also:death on the 23rd of See also:July 1373. She was canonized in r391 by Pope See also:Boniface IX., and her feast is celebrated on the 9th of See also:October.
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