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holy shrine: she then went to Germany, France,
Spain and Rome.
Sometimes honoured and sometimes mocked,
she travelled, even to Cyprus and Palestine.
Conscious of approaching death, she again
reached Rome, where her last revelation was,
that she should rest in Vadstene, and that this
cloister especially should be sanctified by God’s
love. The splendour of the Northern lights does
not extend so far around the earth as the glory
of this fair saint, who now is but a legend.
We bend with silent, serious thoughts before
the mouldering remains in the coffin here –
those of St. Bridget and her daughter St.
Catherine; but even of these the
remembrance will be extinguished. There is a
tradition amongst the people, that in the time of
the Reformation the real remains were carried
off to a cloister in Poland, but this is not
certainly known. Vadstene, at least, is not the
repository of St. Bridget and her daughter’s dust.
Vadstene was once great and glorious. Great
was the cloister’s power, as St. Bridget saw it in
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