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She was also known for her piety and her admiration for Saints Mary, Martha, and Bridget of Sweden, as well as her patron saint, Hedwig of Andechs.

Continued troubles in Italy, as well as pleas from figures such as Petrarch and St. Bridget of Sweden, caused Urban to set out for Rome, which he reached on 16 October 1367.

Stein is one of the six patron saints of Europe, together with Saint Benedict of Nursia, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Bridget of Sweden and Saint Catherine of Siena.

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Bridget of Sweden ( 1303 – 23 July 1373 ; also Birgitta of Vadstena, Saint Birgitta ( or Birgitta Birgersdotter ), was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years.

* Text of The Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden in English

* St Bridget of Sweden Grade School & Parish, Van Nuys, California

The development of compositional chiaroscuro received a considerable impetus in Northern Europe from the vision of the Nativity of Jesus of Saint Bridget of Sweden, a very popular mystic.

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Despite Joanna's deep spirituality and friendships with Catherine of Siena and Saint Bridget of Sweden, her court was notable for its extravagance with her collection of exotic animals and servants of various origins including Turkish, Saracen, and African.

John Casimir was, after his brother, the head of the genealogical line of St. Bridget of Sweden, descending in primogeniture from Bridget's sister.

These depictions derive directly from the accounts given by Saint Bridget of Sweden of her visions, in which she describes seeing this.

Much of what is known about women in the Middle Ages is known from the works of nuns such as Clare of Assisi, Bridget of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena.

* St. Bridget of Sweden, Philadelphia

Its authenticity was later considered to be confirmed by a vision of Saint Bridget of Sweden.

Another saint Bridget of Sweden ( 1303 – 1373 ) was given a Swedish variant of the old Irish name named in honour of Brigit.

* St Bridget of Sweden ( 14th century )

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) is a monastic religious order of Augustinian nuns, Religious Sisters and monks founded by Saint Birgitta ( Saint Bridget ) of Sweden in approximately 1350, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370.

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Among the pilgrims who visited the Saint Michael Archangel Sanctuary were many popes ( Gelasius I, Leo IX, Urban II, Alexander III, Gregory X, Celestine V, John XXIII as Cardinal, John Paul II ), saints ( Bridget of Sweden, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas ) emperors, kings and princes ( Louis II of Italy, Otto III, Herny II, Matilda of Tuscany, Charles I of Naples, Ferdinand II of Aragon ).

The church is dedicated to Bridget of Sweden.

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In Ireland, the tradition is supposed to originate from a deal that Saint Bridget struck with Saint Patrick.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for " certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries ".

* 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.

* August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.

* March 15 – in County Tipperary, Ireland, Bridget Cleary is killed by her husband, believing her to be a fairy changeling.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson ; Anderson's blank verse format was retained for only portions of the screenplay, such as Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London, but then again, Anderson did not use blank verse throughout the play either, only in portions of it.

Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding.

Her mother is an overconfident, doting woman who is constantly trying to marry Bridget off to a rich, handsome man ; and her father is considerably more down-to-earth, though he is sometimes driven into uncharacteristically unstable states of mind by his wife.

In these situations, Bridget is often plagued with that perennial question " How's your love life?

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

( One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda's four-year-old daughter Bridget.

Some have questioned whether Saint Bridget is in fact their author ; Eamon Duffy reports that the prayers probably originated in England, in the devotional circles that surrounded Richard Rolle or the English Brigittines.

He is the eldest son of the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis and the brother of television broadcaster and author Adam Hart-Davis and Bridget, the dowager Lady Silsoe.

Point and Elsie introduce themselves and explain that Elsie's mother Bridget is very ill and they seek money to buy medicine for her.

* Elinor Donahue as Bridget, a friend of Barney Thompson who works in a women's clothing store and is asked by Barney to help Vivian purchase a dress after Vivian has an encounter with two snobby women in another dress store.

It is the contention of the Church of Ireland that the church's continuation of the celebration of Irish saints ' days, including St Patrick ( 17 March ), St Bridget ( 1 February ) and St Columba ( 6 June ), is a continuation of the independant Celtic Christianity.

He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda ( by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich ).

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE ( born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London ) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art.