Word: vadstena
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...expertise, Lutheran Hjortsjo got permission to investigate the country's holy treasure: a reliquary said to contain the bones of St. Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century mother of eight, noted for her moral example and mysticism.* Among the 25 bits and pieces in the crumbling reliquary in Vadstena Abbey, HjortsjÖ hit a hagiological jackpot: parts of no less than seven men and six women, including St. Bridget's daughter St. Catherine, St. Bridget's confessor Peter of Alvastra, St. Sigfrid, and-without much doubt-St. Bridget herself...
...Brigittine. collected around her a score of sisters, three of them Swedish. But not until recently did King Gustaf get the first exception ever made in Sweden's stern anti-monastic law. And not until last week were the Brigittines able to return to Sweden to settle in Vadstena where their original mother house was founded...
...holding the topnotch job of international general secretary. He helped build the Student Volunteer Movement (for foreign missions), is the only man alive who has attended each & every one of its conferences since the first pre-organization meeting under Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886 at Mt. Hermon, Mass. At Vadstena Castle in Sweden in 1895 he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation. Busy with missions, he got up the International Missionary Council in 1920, unwittingly fathered the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry when in 1930 he addressed a group convened by John D. Rockefeller...
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