Editing Bridget of Sweden (section)

== Veneration ==
[[File:Heliga Birgitta-den portrattlika.jpg|thumb|right|245px|Statue of Bridget of Sweden in Vadstena Abbey. Work by sculptor [[Johannes Junge]] in 1425.]]
The Brigitta Chapel was erected in 1651 in [[Vienna]], and in 1900 the new district [[Brigittenau]] was founded. In Sweden, adjacent to [[Skederid Church]], built by Bridget's father on the family's land, a memorial stone was erected in 1930.

On 1 October 1999, [[Pope John Paul II]] named Saint Bridget a [[patron saint]] of Europe.<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_01101999_co-patronesses-europe_en.html ''Proclamation of the Co-Patronesses of Europe'', Apostolic Letter, 1 October 1999].</ref><ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_13111999_st-bridget_en.html ''Liturgical Feast of St. Bridget'', Homily, 13 November 1999] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303030037/https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_13111999_st-bridget_en.html |date=3 March 2013 }}.</ref> Her [[feast day]] is celebrated on 23 July, the day of her death. Her feast was not in the [[Tridentine calendar]], but was inserted in the [[General Roman Calendar]] in 1623 for celebration on 7 October, the day of her 1391 canonization by [[Pope Boniface IX]]. Five years later, her feast day was moved to 8 October (but the Church in Sweden celebrates it on the 7th), a date which was not changed until the revision of the General Roman Calendar in 1969, when it was set on 8 October, the date which it is currently celebrated on.<ref>''Calendarium Romanum'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 98.</ref> Some continue to use the earlier [[General Roman Calendar of 1954]], the [[General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII]], or the [[General Roman Calendar of 1960]].

The [[Third Order of Saint Francis]] includes her feast day on its [[Calendar of saints]] on the same day as the general Church, honoring her as a member of the order.

The [[Bjärka-Säby Monastery]] contains a portrait of Bridget of Sweden which is venerated by Christians who are members of several [[Christian denomination|denominations]]. An hour away from this monastery, the [[Vadstena Abbey]], also known as the Blue Church, contains relics of the saint, and her body is venerated by Lutheran and Catholic believers.<ref name=Milliner1>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/06/not-so-secular-sweden|title=Not So Secular Sweden by Matthew Milliner|date=June 2014|work=[[First Things]]|publisher=Institute on Religion and Public Life|access-date=18 May 2014|quote=But the Lutheran pastor who met us there was not the steward of an empty shell, but instead oversaw a living devotional site frequented by [[Protestantism|Protestants]] and Catholics alike. (It does not hurt that Birgitta's forceful critique of the papacy led some to see her as [[proto-Protestantism|proto-Protestant]].) After placing our fingers in the holes, my companions and I entered the complex, and were met with a beautiful cross celebrating Birgitta and her daughter Catherine, painted by a Pentecostal icon painter. Most remarkable was the vaulting of this massive Gothic complex. Brigittine nuns wear the "Crown of the Five Holy Wounds" with five red symbolic stones. In the same way, the five bosses connecting the Gothic ribbing are here painted red, causing pilgrims to momentarily become Brigittines themselves, their heads enclosed with the five wounds as they step under every vaulted bay. Although there was some destruction and damage to statues from invading Danish soldiers, most here have survived. We make our way to the still-preserved relics of Birgitta, but are interrupted by a bell. Thirty pilgrims stop to gather in the rear of the church for a Taizé prayer service before a gorgeous Byzantine icon of Christ made by that same Pentecostal painter.}}</ref><ref name=Milliner2>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/06/not-so-secular-sweden|title=Not So Secular Sweden by Matthew Milliner|date=June 2014|work=[[First Things]]|publisher=Institute on Religion and Public Life|access-date=18 May 2014|quote=Martin Luther may have called her die tolle Brigit, "crazy Birgitta," but there was her body—enclosed in a red casket, now tastefully tended by Lutherans.}}</ref>

Bridget is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] by the [[Church of England]], which holds a [[Commemoration (Anglicanism)|commemoration]] on 23 July<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=27 March 2021|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref> and on the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church liturgical calendar]] on 7 October.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEq7DwAAQBAJ |title=Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 |date=2019-12-17 |publisher=Church Publishing, Inc. |isbn=978-1-64065-235-4 |language=en}}</ref>