Before answering I ought to go through the multitudinous books she
wrote/dictated, etc. But she talks far more against war, than for crusade,
particularly begging Europe, especially England and France, to stop the
Hundred Years' War. She is broadminded about non-Christians. She is part of
the Friends of God movement and it was involved in diplomacy against war,
having even sent a delegation to the Pope, gaining entrance to him by means
of a Swiss clock! It was believed that in whichever country there was a
Brigittine Abbey there would be peace, Henry V founding Syon with that
intent. Syon Abbey returned to England from Portugal in the nineteenth
century and is today in Totnes, Devon.
>Did Birgitta of Sweden (or any of the other later medieval female saints
>you study) have definite ideas/predications/moral opinions about the
>crusades?
>Gary Dickson
>University of Edinburgh
>
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Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family,
via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY,
http://members.aol.com/juliansite/Juliansite.htm
Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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