Nicolaus Ragvaldi (a Latinized form of the Swedish Nils Ragvaldsson) (died 1514) was a monk in the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena, and served twice as its confessor general. He is known for a few translations and other writings known among the preserved parts of the library of the Abbey.
He was ordained in 1476 and held the position of confessor general for two periods, 1501-1506 and 1511–1512. He spent the years 1506–1508 on a visitation to the Bridgettine abbey of Riga, where he also held the position of confessor. [1]
He is known for having translated the Book of Judges and the Book of Joshua into Swedish. He also made a Swedish translation and commentary of the Bridgettine ritual under the title Jomfru Marie yrtegardher ("The herbal gardens of the Virgin Mary") for the benefit of the nuns in Vadstena, who usually did not know enough Latin to understand the Latin ritual, originally composed in the 14th century. [2] Extant manuscripts of his works are in the Royal Swedish Library in Stockholm and in the Uppsala University Library.
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The Collegium Regium Stockholmense was an institution of higher, mostly theological, education founded by King John III of Sweden in 1576 and functioned until 1593.
The Abbey of Our Lady and of St. Bridget, more commonly referred to as Vadstena Abbey, situated on Lake Vättern in the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden, was the motherhouse of the Bridgettine Order. The abbey started on one of the farms donated to it by the king, but the town of Vadstena grew up around it. It was active from 1346 until 1595.
The Diarium Vadstenense or "Vadstena Diary" is the diary of the monks of the Vadstena Abbey, in which remarkable events in or out of the monastery were written down.
Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish professor and historian.
Aarno Henrik Maliniemi was a Finnish historian, professor in church history at Helsinki University 1945–1960.
Mariefred Charterhouse, sometimes referred to as Gripsholm Charterhouse, was a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in the present town of Mariefred in Södermanland, Sweden, to which it gave its name; before the building of the monastery the place was known as Gripsholm. It was the only Carthusian monastery in Scandinavia, and one of the last monasteries established in Sweden before the Reformation.
Ås Abbey was a Cistercian monastery situated near the present village of Åskloster about 14 km north of Varberg, in Varberg Municipality. It was located near the mouth of the River Viskan into the Kattegat in Halland, formerly part of Denmark but now in Sweden
Ingegerd Knutsdotter was a Swedish nun and noble, the first official abbess of the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena in 1385/88–1403.
Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn was a Swedish bibliographer and publisher.
Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen was a Swedish bibliographical periodical. It was established in 1914 by Almqvist & Wiksell with Isak Collijn as its Editor-in-Chief. He was succeeded by Tönnes Kleberg in 1949, who was succeeded by Gert Hornwall in 1975. In 1990, Almqvist & Wiksell ceased publishing the periodical. It was then published by Avdelningen för bok- och bibliotekshistoria in 1991, by Lund University from 1992 to 1997 and by the Scandinavian University Press until 2000. It was revived by the five national libraries of the Nordic countries, which titled it Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok- och Bibliotekshistoria. The periodical was disestablished in 2007. In March 2005, Project Runeberg started digitalising the volumes from 1914 to 1935 of the periodical.
Katarina Bengtsdotter Gylta, in Latin: Catharina Benedicta, was a Swedish nun of the Bridgettine Order, Abbess of Vadstena Abbey in 1553–1564 and 1565–1593. She was the second last abbess in Sweden and Vadstena Abbey after the reformation.
Christina Hansadotter Brask, or Christin Hansadotter, was a Swedish writer and translator, and a member of the Bridgettine Order in Vadstena Abbey.
Gerdeka Hartlevsdotter, or Hartlefsdotter, also called Gerdica (1370–1438), was a Swedish Bridgettine nun. She was the abbess of Vadstena Abbey from 1403 until 1422.
Events from the year 1576 in Sweden
Marienbrunn Abbey also called Fons Mariae and Triumphus Marie was a double convent for women and men of the order of the Bridgettines, situated in Gdańsk between 1391 and 1833. It was the first convent of the order founded outside of Sweden, and the second convent of the order altogether.
Karin Johansdotter, was a Swedish Roman Catholic nun of the Bridgettine Order. She was the last nun in Sweden after the Swedish Reformation.
Anna Germundsdotter or Girmundsdotter was a Swedish writer and Roman Catholic nun of the Bridgettine order and abbess of the Vadstena Abbey from 1518 until 1529.
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