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7 . RUDBECKIUS IN HIS DIOCESE. 281
curious vision which he had when a young man of an
angel, who advised him what books to buy and study.
Such visions seem to be characteristic of Sweden. But the
Vesteras Sabbatarians were sadly led astray by theirs.
They rejected the New Testament, denied the Saviour, and
ridiculed the Sacraments and the Resurrection. The move
ment had appeared in Vesteras as early as 1597, when a
citizen and a peasant were put on their trial, and the latter
condemned to death.81
7. RUDBECKIUS IN HIS DIOCESE. His ENERGY AND
SUCCESS. RESISTS THE KING S PLAN FOR A
Consistorium Generale.
This commission was Rudbeckius introduction to the
diocese in which he was to spend the remaining twenty-
seven years of his life. He was consecrated Bishop of
Vesteras, 28th January, 1619, in Linkoping Cathedral,
where the king had gone to attend the funeral of a sister.
Immediately afterwards the king ordered the bishops who
were present to inquire into the case of three Judaizers from
Vesteras, one of whom was handed over by the spiritual
court to the secular arm for suitable punishment, and was
put to death. Similar fanatics continued to appear at
various times until a much later date.
Rudbeckius did a wonderful work in the period of his
episcopate. He first turned his attention to the cathedral,
built by Birger Jarl about 1270, in the place of an older
one. It was now in a ruinous condition, and the new
bishop re-roofed it with copper. He founded and liberally
organised the first gymnasium or high school for boys ever
31
On Judaism in Sweden see Baaz :
Inventarium, lib. vi., c.
16, and vii., 7; Norlin :
I.e., pp. 53-4 and Kyrkans Hist, efter
Ref. y 2, pp. 249 foil., and Cornelius :
Hist., 140. For a cor
rection of some mistakes about the subject see Otto Ahnfelt s
Tidskrift for teologi, 3, p. 288 (1893). He explains Article 7 of
the Ordinantia of 1540 1541, and Gustaf Vasa s often quoted
letter to the Finns of the 3rd December, 1554, as referring to
the cultus of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom Saturday was
particularly dedicated.
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