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	Bridgettines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, and was dedicated to devotion to the passion of Jesus.
		Bridgettine sisters run several organizations in India and Cochin institution is a major one among them.
		Today there are three Bridgettine orders, two of women, with convents throughout the world, and another separate order of men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridgettines (393 words)

	Uden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result the order of the Kruisheren came to the municipality in 1638, after they had fled from 's-Hertogenbosch during oppression by the protestant Dutch.
		In 1713 members of the covenant of the Bridgettines fled from the Brabant of the States area too and founded a new abbey near the town of Uden.
		When the peace of Munster in 1648 made an end to the religious wars in Europe, Uden didn't came part of the Dutch republic and became an heaven of religious tolerance.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Uden (547 words)

	Bridgettines: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Bridgettine houses soon spread into other lands, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Syon abbey, (or sion abbey) was a major medieval monastery of the bridgettine order, its major site bordering brentford and isleworth, middlesex,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bridgettines.htm (1591 words)

	Convent of St. Birgitta @ Vikingsborg - Guest House
		The work for Christian unity is being constantly erected on the foundations of the ecumenical reflection that is synthesized in the study, seminars and conventions; in ecumenical hospitality; and in spirituality encounters, especially at youth level.
		Through her contact with suffering and illness ant the Roosevelt hospital where she worked as a nurse, her human and spiritual sensitivity was deepened and conformed to that of her compatriot Bridget, as spiritually based on love for the Crucified One as the true path to self - realization and unity of mankind.
		This new branch from the old Bridgettine lineage, was born on 8 September 1911 and was given definitive approval by the Holy See on 2 December 1940.
	www.birgittines-us.com /workof.htm (946 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Double Monasteries
		But, whatever may be its origin, the supreme rule of an abbess over both men and women was deliberately revived, and sanctioned by the Church, in two of the three medieval orders that consisted of double monasteries.
		At Fontevrault (founded 1099) and with the Bridgettines (1346), the abbess was the superior of monks as well as nuns, though with the Gilbertines (1146) it was the prior who ruled over both.
		In the earlier double monasteries both monks and nuns observed the same rule mutatis mutandis; this example was followed by Fontevrault and the Bridgettines, the rule of the former being Benedictine, while the latter observed the rule of St. Bridget.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10452a.htm (889 words)

	Religious Houses: House of Bridgettines \| British History Online
		He asked the Pope to permit these two and other religious to transfer to the new abbey, and also to allow Syon to receive laity and secular clergy until the numbers laid down by their Rule were complete.
		He requested confirmation of the privileges of the Bridgettine Order as granted during the schism by Urban VI and asked that they should apply to Syon.
		An edition of the Syon Breviary and a full account of the Bridgettine liturgy is being prepared by A. Collins for the Henry Bradshaw Soc.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22119 (7562 words)

	St. Catherine of Vadstena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Catherine took on the mammoth task of forming the community in the rule her mother had written and directing the Order of the Holy Savior, or Bridgettines, as they were called.
		She stayed there five years and returned to Sweden before her mother was canonized but obtained from Pope Urban VI the ratification of the Bridgettine rule.
		While in Italy, she formed a close friendship with St. Catherine of Siena and almost accompanied her on a trip to the court of Joanna of Naples, a notoriously immoral queen.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/VADSTENA.htm (472 words)

	Protestant Inquisition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On May 4, 1535, in London, three Carthusian monks and one Bridgettine monk were hanged until partially conscious.
		Then their bellies were cut open, their intestines wrenched out and tossed on a fire, and their hearts ripped out by hand.
		I have yet to encounter stories of the English Carthusians and Bridgettines or of Margaret Clitherow or John Forest in the pages of any standard textbook covering the Reformation in England.
	hometown.aol.com /philvaz/articles/num37.htm (1244 words)

	Bridgettines: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Bridgettine houses soon spread into other lands, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Virtually all the other Bridgettine convents were also destroyed during the Reformation (Improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/bridgettines (1948 words)

	Archive Descriptions - University of Exeter Library and Information Service
		His work on the history of Syon Abbey was not formally committed to paper until the 1930s and 1940s, when he sent each volume to the Abbey on completion for safekeeping.
		The community of Bridgettine nuns at Syon Abbey are now based at South Brent, Devon.
		The Bridgettine Order was founded in the second half of the fourteenth-century by a Swedish noblewoman who was canonised in 1391 and known as St Bridget of Sweden.
	www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/archives/091-100/095_01.html (970 words)

	Henry VIII, monasteries and Bible
		In fact, most religious were guilty of little more than lacking any vocation and so living as comfortably as they could.
		Only the three small orders of Bridgettines, Franciscan Observants, and Carthusians were noted for high standards.
		The monasteries were major landlords and were no better (but no worse) than their lay counterparts in the way they treated their tenants.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-09.htm (1181 words)

	Double Houses (Post - Conquest) - 2 Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fashion for double houses lay dormant for nearly 300 years until the Swedish order of Bridgettines founded two houses in 1415 and 1431.
		A considerable number of 7th century double houses were later refounded as nunneries or monasteries for men.
		These houses, in addition to the 12th century Gilbertine and Fontevraultine houses and those of the 15th century Bridgettines, remained in use until the Dissolution (1535-40), although after the final confiscation of the Alien Priories in 1414, the Fontevraultine houses survived as ordinary nunneries.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /mpp/mcd/sub/dblh2.htm (329 words)

	Recent Books - Krug, Reading Families
		Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.
		Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey.
		The book begins with Paston’s letters, which were written at her husband’s request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.
	english.cla.umn.edu /recent_books/book_pages/krug_families.htm (211 words)

	St. Bridget
		They came to be popularly known as "Bridgettines." Bridget's daughter St. Catherine (Karin) of Vadstena was later its abbess.
		Some houses of Bridgettine nuns still exist; the Bridgettine monks are no more.
		In 1349, Bridget, now out of favor at court, though beloved by the Swedish for her charities, moved to Rome, never to return to her native country.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id705.htm (656 words)

	Today's Saint
		Though not fully successful at this, the king did grant her some land and buildings to use as a monastery for women.
		After her husband died in 1344, Bridget devoted herself to establishing a religious order for women (the Order for the Holy Savior, or "Bridgettines").
		The year 1350 was designated a "Year of Jubilee," and Bridget decided, in spite of the Black Death which was then ravaging Europe, to make a pilgrimage to Rome.
	catholicexchange.com /church_today/message.asp?message_id=504&sec_id=4 (326 words)

	Saints of July 23
		The convents were separate, and while they used the same church, it was designed so that the men and women could not see one another.
		The community was named the Order of the Most Holy Savior, or the Bridgettines, as they came to be called.
		In art, Saint Bridget is portrayed as a crowned Brigittine abbess with a cross on her brow, holding a book and a pilgrim's staff.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0723.htm (3452 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Bridget of Sweden
		She recorded the revelations given her in her visions, and these became hugely popular in the Middle Ages.
		Founded the Order of the Most Holy Savior (Bridgettines) at Vadstena in 1346.
		It received confirmation by Pope Urban V in 1370, and survives today, though few houses remain.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb07.htm (521 words)

	Glossary: St. Margaret to York
		In 1415 Henry V founded a Carthusian monastery at Sheen called the House of Jesus of Bethlehem of Sheen on the south bank of the Thames.
		Across the river he founded a Bridgettine house, the monastery of St. Savior and St.
		In 1431 the Bridgettine monastery was moved a little further down the river to a site now occupied by Syon House.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/visarts/projects/kempe/text/gloss5.html (5445 words)

	St. Catherine of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They each had to fend off the unwanted advances of local men, including young lords; during one of these, a wild hind came to Catherine's defense, chasing off the troublesome, would-be suitor.
		When Bridget died, Catherine took her body back to Sweden, burying it at the convent of the Order of the Holy Savior (Bridgettines) at Vadstena Catherine became superior of the order, and served as abbess.
		Attained papal approval of the Bridgettine Order in 1375.
	www.glgarden.org /Dreamweaverboutique/stcatherine.htm (185 words)

	Religious Houses: Introduction \| British History Online
		11) The abbey of Syon, founded in 1415, was the only house of the Bridgettines in England.
		This fact alone would have made it remarkable, but, in addition, like the Charterhouse, it enjoyed a high reputation.
		In accordance with accepted usage, first place in this chapter is given to the Benedictine houses, then follow the Carthusians, the Augustinian Canons and Canonesses, the Bridgettines, the Trinitarian Friars, the Knights of St.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22114 (1454 words)

	Countdown to 2000
		After her husband's death, Bridget entered a monastery and began having visions.
		She also founded a religious order named for her, the Bridgettines.
		Known for her penitence, humility and charity toward the needy, St. Bridget was also a reformer, calling on bishops and abbots to stop their abuses.
	www.evangelist.org /evv/comp1300.htm (2466 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : July 23, 2005 : Bridget
		Her body was translated to her monastery of Vadstena; and becoming illustrious for miracles, she was enrolled among the saints by Boniface IX.
		The Liturgical Year, Abbot Gueranger O.S.B. St. Bridget founded the Order of the Most Holy Savior (Bridgettines) at Vadstena in 1346.
		It received confirmation by Pope Urban V in 1370, and survives today.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-07-23 (1036 words)

	libbeth
		Syon Abbey: The Spirituality of the English Bridgettines.
		The Contemplative Life in Great Britain, Carthusians, Benedictines, Bridgettines 2.
		The Rewyll of Seynt Sauioure and A Ladder of Foure Ronges by the which men mowe clyme to Heven.
	www.florin.ms /libbeth.html (6347 words)

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