Saints Bring Catholic and Lutheran Together

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There are several shines of Scandinavian saints in Lutheran cathedrals. St Bridget, the patron saint of Europe. St Eric, the patron saint of Sweden, relics at the Uppsala cathedral. St Olaf enshrined under the High Altar in the octagon in the Nidaros cathedral in Norway.

St Birgitta of Sweden [holy day is 7/23] died in Rome on July 23, 1373. She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Boniface IX in 1391. St Bridget’s remains are in Uppsala cathedral with relics in a Lutheran church of a Catholic convent 👍

In October 1, 1999 Pope John Paul II named St Bridget as a patron saint of Europe

Here’s the explanation of Roman Catholics venerating at a Lutheran shine:

“From the Vadstena Blue Church/ Convent church (1430) after the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at the pilgrimage of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden on the 5th September 2009. In the shrine are the relics of St Birgitta/St Bridget of Sweden, and her daughter St. Catherine of Vadstena. The church belongs to the Church of Sweden, which still holds the relic of the only canonized saint of Sweden (which also is Patroness of Europe), which is quite unique being a Lutheran church. St. Bridget is also venerated by many Lutherans in Sweden, and within the Church of Sweden is the society Societas Sanctæ Birgittæ, which want to follow her example, serve the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church in Sweden (Church of Sweden) and holds the general chapter on 23rd of July, day of her birthday September 2009.”

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Thanks for sharing this.

I have been a member of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran (ELCA) church, and have spent some time worshipping at Episcopal churches. I find it interesting that while all 3 churches have saints, they have different ones with only a few in common.
 
Love it. Time for Catholics and Lutherans to drop secondary differences , celebrate what we have in common
 
Here’s a shrine to St Brigitta in a Lutheran parish in Kraksmala Sweden
 
In this video Catholics are praying the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Lutheran shine to St Brigitta.

“Benediction of the Blessed sacrament in the Blue church (Convent church) in Vadstena (belongs to Church of Sweden) at the pilgrimage of the catholic diocese of Sweden on 5th September 2009(bishop Anders Arborelius OCD). The hymn Tantum ergo Sacramentum, the Benediction and final hymn Te Deum. The church is inaugurated in 1430, and holds the relics of the S:t Bridget of Sweden”.

youtube.com/watch?v=cvxTbhlQDhE
 
Tantum Ergo, latin, a humeral veil. Wonderful in a Protestant church!
 
Probably most of the people in the video are Roman Catholics in either a Lutheran chapel or the Uppsala cathedral. The camera in the first video segment shows a side altar and then another one in a lower level which suggests the event took place in a large church or cathedral. Since it is in Swedish, it is hard to know exactly. But the interesting aspect is that Catholics join Lutherans to honor saints and the Benediction is also said, lead by the local Roman Catholic bishop.
 
andrewstx said:
Tantum Ergo, latin, a humeral veil. Wonderful in a Protestant church!
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Well, you are not wrong about it now being a Protestant church but I would like to add a bit bitterly, especially since EvangelCatholic called it a ‘‘Lutheran shrine’’, that it was built by Catholics for Catholics and that the Lutherans took it from the Catholics. Yes, yes, it was a long time ago but still. The mass is Roman Catholic by the way so the people there is probably mostly Catholic, although there are probably a few Lutherans as well since they borrow it from them.
 
Andromedus said:
Well, you are not wrong about it now being a Protestant church but I would like to add a bit bitterly, especially since EvangelCatholic called it a ‘‘Lutheran shrine’’, that it was built by Catholics for Catholics and that the Lutherans took it from the Catholics. Yes, yes, it was a long time ago but still. The mass is Roman Catholic by the way so the people there is probably mostly Catholic, although there are probably a few Lutherans as well since they borrow it from them.
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We can ignore that as well 🙂
 
There is some history with the particular order whose convent is on the grounds of this Lutheran church. I am sorry to have read where the Church of Sweden when it became Lutheran discouraged religious communities by forbidding new novitiates and effectively putting an end to convents/ monasteries centuries ago. But this order of St Brigitta has always been allowed to remain even though it is Roman Catholic.
 
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