Catherine of Vadstena

Saint Catherine of Sweden, and Catherine of Vadstena (* 1331 or 1332, † March 24, 1381 in Vadstena ), was abbess of the monastery of Vadstena and a daughter of Saint Bridget of Sweden.

At the age of 13 years, Catherine married German noblemen Eggart of Kürnen; but the two vowed to lead a Josef marriage. When her husband died in 1349, followed by Catherine, who was staying at the time with her mother in Rome this to the monastery, where they lived for 20 years in the same community.

1374 transferred the relics of her mother Catherine to Vadstena, where she helped the monastery founded by Birgitta of Vadstena to new heights and whose abbess was. In subsequent journeys to Rome, she sat very one for the abolition of the schism and the recognition of the rule of the order Birgitt interior. It also caused her mother's canonization.

1484 Innocent VIII permitted their veneration of Catherine as a saint. Your feast day is March 24.