HURREY ! I won all the goodies that Kthrinita was offering in her giveaway celebrating her 1 000 followers. I am so happy and very looking forward to receiving those goodies. Thank you so much ...

Amuses bouche

Gambas au curry vert et lait coco avec riz Basmati

Jupe jacquard mi-lenght - € 14.95

Jupe jaquard - € 14.95

Boucles d'oreilles - € 2,95 (en soldes) + € 2,75 (frais de port)

Salade de fonds d'artichauds avec coppeaux de parmesan

Boeuf à la wok avec pâtes et légumes

île flottante

Qui est Sainte Brigitte ?

Sainte Brigitte de Suède ( Birgitta Birgersdotter / 1303 – 23 juillet 1373 / Canonisée en 1391) patronne des pèlerins.

Issue d’une famille noble, Sainte Brigitte vécut les 40 premières années de sa vie en tant qu’épouse et mère exemplaire de 8 enfants, dont Catherine de Suède. Devenue veuve en 1344, elle distribua ses biens aux pauvres puis s’installa au monastère cistercien d’Alvastra, où commencèrent ses révélations divines. Ces dernières ont été traduites du suédois au latin, puis éditées en 8 tomes intitulés Revelationes. Sainte Brigitte se fixa ensuite à Rome à partir de 1349 et se consacra à l’apostolat et la prière.

La coiffe Sainte Brigitte tire son nom de la relique retrouvée et qui aurait appartenu à la Sainte.

Cette relique se trouve actuellement au musée de l’Histoire de Stockholm. Cette coiffe fut découverte en 1971 à Uden, en Hollande.

D’après  Aron Andersson et Anne Marie Frazén, Sainte Brigitte aurait porté cette coiffe sous son voile noir et blanc, ainsi que sous la guimpe. Elle est  faite en lin, et froncée au niveau des attaches.

On retrouve cette coiffe Sainte Brigitte dans de très nombreuses enluminures, à partir du XIIIème siècle :

Source : http://www.oursmalandrins.com/coiffe-sainte-brigitte/

Saint Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373), is an interesting character from this period. She was a mystic, who founded the Roman Catholic Bridgettine Order and became the patron saint of Sweden. 

In 2003 Sweden celebrated her 700th birth anniversary. The stamp shows the saint reading a holy book. 

Originally named Birgitta Persson, she was the daughter of a nobleman who was one of the wealthiest landowners of Sweden. 

She married in 1316 and bore eight children, one of whom, Catherine, is listed as a saint in the Roman martyrology. 

It is a very nice sheet telling that she was canonized in Rome in 1391 The background shows her handwriting telling about her revelations. 

Upon her husband's death in 1344, Birgitta left home and began a life of poverty and prayer near Alvastra Abbey, a Cistercian monastery. Since childhood, Birgitta had experienced extraordinary visions, including one of Christ crucified, and these now became more frequent. 

She dictated her revelations to the prior of Vadstena Abbey, Peter Olafsson, who translated them into Latin. In one of her visions, she claimed Christ commanded her to found a strict new religious order that would aid in the reform of monastic life. For this purpose, she moved to Rome in 1349, although she did not receive papal confirmation of her order until 1370. 

With the exception of several pilgrimages, she remained in Rome for the rest of her life, urging ecclesiastical reform (especially the return to Rome of the Avignon popes), sheltering the homeless, and counseling rich and poor alike. She was canonized in 1391. Her feast day is July 23. 

Source: http://heindorffhus.motivsamler.dk/arthistory/frame-Style08-Gothic.htm

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