The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden, Volume 3: Liber Caelestis, Books VI-VII

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Contents
Abbreviations
The Entire Birgittine Corpus
BOOK VI
	Introduction
	CHAPTER 1 On Christ’s Physical Beauty
	CHAPTER 2 A Sick Man who Repented on his Deathbed Suffers in Purgatory
	CHAPTER 3 A Devil Tempts a Friar; In the Explanation a Witch Tempts a Priest
	CHAPTER 4 A Wise Man must Preach Boldly, Suffer Patiently, and Deal Justly
	CHAPTER 5 Christ Describes a Place Where the Wicked Torment their Brethren
	CHAPTER 6 Birgitta Has Shown Impatience
	CHAPTER 7 On a Deacon Who Must Work For the Conversion Of his Brethren
	CHAPTER 8 Some Monks Lived in a Worldly Fashion and Did Not Heed Birgitta’s Reproaches
	CHAPTER 9 On an Unrepentant Impious Priest; And on His Dreadful Death
	CHAPTER 10 On a Swedish Aristocrat in Purgatory; The Living May Still Make Amends on His Behalf
	CHAPTER 11 Everything Fell into Agitation At the Crucifixion
	CHAPTER 12 Mary is Like a Beehive
	CHAPTER 13 Three Resolutions
	CHAPTER 14 How Birgitta was Called to Follow Christ in Love
	CHAPTER 15 On the Greed and Ambition of Roman Priests, especially a priest of St. Peter’s Church
	CHAPTER 16 A Worldly Woman Undergoes Severe Punishment
	CHAPTER 17 The Devil Wants to Tempt Birgitta; Mary Wants to Protect Her
	CHAPTER 18 Consolation Disdained is Like a Drink Thrown in the Giver’s Face
	CHAPTER 19 On a Sinful Monk who Follows the Desires of the Flesh
	CHAPTER 20 One of Birgitta’s Kinsmen Must Improve his Lifestyle and Contemplate the Lord’s Passion; He is Converted and Dies
	CHAPTER 21 Punishment For a Man in Purgatory is Reduced
	CHAPTER 22 Advice For a Bishop Who Converts
	CHAPTER 23 The Virgin Mary Prays for a Nobleman Described as a Robber
	CHAPTER 24 The Same Man Must Atone For his Earlier Offenses
	CHAPTER 25 A Threat To the Same Man
	CHAPTER 26 The King should Work to Rebuild the Church
	CHAPTER 27 The Proud do not Heed God’s Commandments
	CHAPTER 28 A Soul is Described as a Stillborn Child and Condemned
	CHAPTER 29 Birgitta Should Receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist More Frequently
	CHAPTER 30 The Will is Like the Roots of a Tree that are Gnawed at By a Mole; God is Like a Skillful Gardener; Application of This to a Mendicant Prior
	CHAPTER 31 On the Fate of Two Souls: One a Worldly Knight Who Chooses to be Condemned to Hell, and the Other a Dominican Prior who Is Like a Shining Star
	CHAPTER 32 The Swedish People are Warned About the Young Viper and its Mother
	CHAPTER 33 An Allegory About an Adulterous Bride who Kills her Bridegroom
	CHAPTER 34 Two of Birgitta’s Friends are Given the Power of Exorcism; A Message for the Kings of France and England
	CHAPTER 35 On the Different Fates of the Prior and Another Dominican Friar
	CHAPTER 36 A Pentecost Vision About Three Vessels and A Man with Wine for Sale; A Swedish Cistercian is Promised a Reward
	CHAPTER 37 On the Proper Ways of Serving the Virgin
	CHAPTER 38 On the Effects of the Good and Bad Spirit
	CHAPTER 39 The Devil and the Virgin Dispute Over the Soul of a Knight; On his Fate in Purgatory
	CHAPTER 40 The Same Soul Enters Heaven After Purgation
	CHAPTER 41 A King of Sweden is Inclined to Pursue his Crusade for Worldly Reasons; On the Mentality of a Good Crusader
	CHAPTER 42 How Birgitta Can Learn to Love God More
	CHAPTER 43 How Birgitta Struggles to Obey her Spiritual Father, and On the Spiritual Weapons of Combat
	CHAPTER 44 Christ is like a Glass-Maker and a Bee; Christians are Undeserving of God’s Love; Heathens should Instead be Favored
	CHAPTER 45 On People’s Blindness and Belief In Fate and Fortune
	CHAPTER 46 Birgitta is Reassured About her Straightened Circumstances
	CHAPTER 47 Birgitta and God’s Friends must Proclaim God’s Word
	CHAPTER 48 People’s Different Ways of Responding to God’s Word
	CHAPTER 49 On the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
	CHAPTER 50 On a Good Pagan’s Desire for God and Her Conversion
	CHAPTER 51 A Man is Advised how to Resist Worldly Pride and Success
	CHAPTER 52 The Punishments of Three Swedish Noblewomen, Representing Three Generations, are Described
	CHAPTER 53 On the Need for Humility Among Those in Authority
	CHAPTER 54 On a Sevenfold Road that Reawakens the True Faith
	CHAPTER 55 Mary Speaks of her Immaculate Conception
	CHAPTER 56 Mary Speaks of her Birth and Childhood
	CHAPTER 57 Mary’s Six Sufferings
	CHAPTER 58 Mary Describes Jesus’ Childhood and Adolescence
	CHAPTER 59 Mary’s Visit to Elizabeth, her Pregnancy, and her Life with Joseph
	CHAPTER 60 Mary Denies that St. Jerome Had Doubted her Assumption
	CHAPTER 61 Mary’s Life after Christ’s Ascension
	CHAPTER 62 Mary’s Assumption into Heaven
	CHAPTER 63 A Letter Addressed to Pope Clement VI
	CHAPTER 64 A Reprimand to Worldly People
	CHAPTER 65 Martha and Mary Symbolize the Virtues of the Active and the Contemplative Life
	CHAPTER 66 An Allegory about a Lord, his Wife, and their House and Servants; the Allegory Applies to a Deceased Man Suffering Punishment
	CHAPTER 67 On Three Ages of the World and the Coming of the Antichrist
	CHAPTER 68 On an Excommunicated Monk
	CHAPTER 69 A Certain Friar’s Abstinence is Driven by Pride rather than Humility
	CHAPTER 70 A Cardinal is Condemned to Eternal Torment for his Pride and Worldly Pleasures
	CHAPTER 71 Master Petrus may Give Absolution to Pilgrims in Rome
	CHAPTER 72 On Simony and Absolution by Parish Priests
	CHAPTER 73 A Penitentiary in Rome is Criticized, but his Remissions are still Valid
	CHAPTER 74 Birgitta Sees an Area Around St. Peter’s Church that Belongs to the Pope
	CHAPTER 75 A Squire Doubts the Preaching of Master Mathias; He Must be Steadfast
	CHAPTER 76 On the Superstitious Owner of a Farm
	CHAPTER 77 On a Monk Who Had Expressed Doubts Over the Crusades
	CHAPTER 78 Birgitta Stays at a Farm Where there are Evil Spirits and Teaches the Inhabitants how to be Free of the Spirits
	CHAPTER 79 On a Priest Who Had Administered the Sacraments Without Being Ordained; He Would be Saved on Account of His Repentance
	CHAPTER 80 On a Woman Possessed by a Devil
	CHAPTER 81 A Three-year-old Boy is Possessed by a Devil
	CHAPTER 82 The King Must Root out Fortune-Tellers
	CHAPTER 83 Gentiles will Outflank Christians in Piety
	CHAPTER 84 Birgitta Spends a Cold Night Outdoors
	CHAPTER 85 Ill-gotten Goods should not be Retained
	CHAPTER 86 Birgitta Sees a Living Lamb in the Eucharistic Host
	CHAPTER 87 Birgitta Experiences a Stench in the Presence of an Excommunicate
	CHAPTER 88 Birgitta Feels a Physical Stirring of her Heart
	CHAPTER 89 Master Mathias wishes to know whether the Book of the Apocalypse really was written by St. John
	CHAPTER 90 A Monk Doubts Birgitta’s Divine Vision, While Mathias Defends It
	CHAPTER 91 Birgitta is Instructed to Moderate her Asceticism
	CHAPTER 92 A Monk States in the Presence of the King that Birgitta is Deluded
	CHAPTER 93 A Woman Sees a Vision of St. Peter and Peter the Martyr on her Deathbed
	CHAPTER 94 On the Resurrection; and How Birgitta Should Deal with Temptations in Old Age
	CHAPTER 95 A Nobleman Named Israel Should not Reject a Position in Government; on his Death in Riga
	CHAPTER 96 The Burning of St. Peter’s Bells is a Sign of Clement VI’s Approaching Death
	CHAPTER 97 On a Lord who has Avoided Going to Confession
	CHAPTER 98 A Benedictine Abbess is Like a Fat Cow; Birgitta Later Sees her in Purgatory
	CHAPTER 99 The Nuns of a Convent are Chided for their Acquisitiveness
	CHAPTER 100 The Words Divinely Revealed to Birgitta will not Lose their Power
	CHAPTER 101 God’s Friends Must Speak the Words he Speaks through Birgitta
	CHAPTER 102 A Swedish Woman is Comforted on her Deathbed in Rome
	CHAPTER 103 St. Nicholas Appears to Birgitta in Bari
	CHAPTER 104 Birgitta Receives Some Relics of St. Anne
	CHAPTER 105 Birgitta is Encouraged to Visit the Shrines of Rome, But Not to Overlook her Latin Studies
	CHAPTER 106 On a Man Who should Spurn Worldly Things and Entrust Himself to God
	CHAPTER 107 Birgitta should Travel to Amalfi to the Relics of St. Andrew
	CHAPTER 108 St. Stephen Tells Birgitta About his Life and Martyrdom
	CHAPTER 109 A Message to an Ecclesiastic
	CHAPTER 110 On the Meaning of the Seven Thunders in the Apocalypse of St. John
	CHAPTER 111 On Obedience
	CHAPTER 112 On the Relic of Christ’s Foreskin
	CHAPTER 113 On the Fate of Thirty-Three Friars
	CHAPTER 114 Birgitta’s Confessor had Forgotten to Grant Absolution to Her
	CHAPTER 115 Concerning a Finn who Cannot Make Confession in his Own Language in Rome
	CHAPTER 116 Christ May Prefer an Unlearned Man to Many a Learned Theologian
	CHAPTER 117 On Mary’s Readiness to Help All
	CHAPTER 118 On the News of the Death of the Husband of Katherina, Birgitta’s Daughter
	CHAPTER 119 Virginity, Marriage,and Widowhood are All Praiseworthy States
	CHAPTER 120 Charity is Like a Tree of Virtues
	CHAPTER 121 On the Virtue of Obedience
	CHAPTER 122 A Woman is Encouraged to Moderate her Gestures in Public
BOOK VII
	Introduction
	CHAPTER 1 The Virgin Tells Birgitta that She will go to Jerusalem and Bethlehem
	CHAPTER 2 An Angel Carries a Sword of Sorrow Before the Virgin
	CHAPTER 3 St. Francis Invites Birgitta to Eat and Drink with Him
	CHAPTER 4 The Relics of St. Thomas the Apostle are Preserved at Ortona
	CHAPTER 5 About a King’s Daughter in a House
	CHAPTER 6 Birgitta Is Told To Prepare To Go To Jerusalem
	CHAPTER 7 Advice to a Franciscan Friar and Comments on the Pope
	CHAPTER 8 A Continuation of the Preceding Revelation
	CHAPTER 9 Birgitta is Instructed to Go to Jerusalem
	CHAPTER 10 On the Celibacy of the Priesthood
	CHAPTER 11 A Revelation on Free Will; With an Addition Giving Advice to the Queen of Naples, and Other Revelations Relating to the People of Naples
	CHAPTER 12 Advice to the Archbishop of Naples for his Household and Diocese
	CHAPTER 13 The Struggle for Karl Ulfsson’s Soul
	CHAPTER 14 A Pardon to Pilgrims at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
	CHAPTER 15 A Vision of the Crucifixion
	CHAPTER 16 Worldly Princes Need to be Attentive; Several Pieces of Advice to the Rulers of Cyprus
	CHAPTER 17 Birgitta Should Take Lodging in a Pilgrim Hostel Instead of a Monastery
	CHAPTER 18 Counsel for the Queen of Cyprus’s Son
	CHAPTER 19 The People of Cyprus Must Mend their Ways
	CHAPTER 20 A Franciscan Friar Asks About the Order of the Friars Minor and the Vow of Poverty
	CHAPTER 21 A Vision of the Nativity
	CHAPTER 22 A Reaffirmation of the Nativity Vision
	CHAPTER 23 The Virgin Shows the Christ Child to the Shepherds
	CHAPTER 24 The Virgin Tells Birgitta of the Visit of the Magi
	CHAPTER 25 The Virgin in Heaven Reflects on her Marriage to Joseph and her Status as Jesus’ Mother
	CHAPTER 26 Birgittta Visits the Sepulcher of the Virgin
	CHAPTER 27 A Message Urging the Citizens of Naples to Repent
	CHAPTER 28 The People of Naples Maltreat their Servants and Sanction Witchcraft
	CHAPTER 29 A Bishop Worries That He is too Often Absent From his Diocese
	CHAPTER 30 Christ in Majesty Bids all Ranks of People to Listen to his Message
	CHAPTER 31 A Prophecy of Birgitta’s Death, with Some Concluding Messages
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