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Dear Anders,
This is extremely interesting information on the question of entrance rituals by
pilgrims -- perhaps the first bit of hard evidence for the significance of the practice
that I've run across. Many thanks!
Jim Bugslag
On 30 Jan 2006 at 17:53, Anders Fröjmark wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> In Vadstena Abbey Church, in central Sweden--one of the major pilgrimage
> churches in Scandinavia--there are peculiar marks near one of the doorways
> where pilgrims passed, either into the church or out from it (this is not
> clear). These marks consist of groups of five holes arranged in form of
> crosses. The holes are suitable for the insertion of fingers and they are
> worn just as if this has been done by thousands of pilgrims.
>
> The church was completed in 1430, in great fidelity to the plan set up by
> St. Birgitta (d. 1373) in her Revelationes extravagantes. The doorways of
> the church and their functions are described in detail in the revelations.
> The doorway(s) through which the pilgrims passed were called by her
> Doorway of the Remission of Sins (Porta remissionis). No mention is made
> of holes in the form of crosses, however.
>
> Images can be found in Vadstena klosterkyrka 1: Kyrkobyggnaden by Iwar
> Andersson, Stockholm 1991, p. 45, 122, and 125.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anders Fröjmark
>
>
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