Sweden Gets New Saint After 600 Years

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see dw.com/en/sweden-gets-new-saint-after-600-years/a-19307946
She is the second Swedish saint in history, born in a staunchly Protestant country with few or no Catholics for 500 years. The one other saint from Sweden was Saint Bridget in 1391.
She was born to a Lutheran family in Sweden in 1870, and then went to the United States for work, where she became Catholic. Later, as mother superior of a convent in Rome, she saved 60 Jews and others from death from the Nazis during the Second World War by hiding them in her convent.
 
Saints Elizabeth Hesselblad and Stanislaus Papczynski, pray for us!
 
In addition to Saint Bridget of Sweden and Saint Elizabeth Hesselblad, there is also Saint Eric of Sweden and Saint Catherine of Sweden.
 
Regrettably the writer didn’t know of the other Swedish saints from the Middle Ages. However, all the same, she is the first Swedish saint in 600 years, from a country devoid of Catholics until recent times, and where Catholics now have become only a small part of the population since being a Catholic stopped being against the law.
 
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