Case file · Apparition / miracle
St Bridget's call at Alvastra
After her husband's death in 1344, Bridget of Sweden, living near Alvastra Abbey, began receiving visions in which Christ called her to be his 'bride and mouthpiece'.
1344 CE · 58.30, 14.65 · status: account
The account
Her 'Revelations' were taken down by confessors and widely read across Europe; she founded the Bridgettine order, whose mother house at Vadstena was consecrated in 1384.