"if you then, though you are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father
in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him" luke 11:13
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content book 7
A revelation which Lady Birgitta had in Rome after the year
of jubilee and in which the Virgin Mary foretells to her
that she will go to Jerusalem and Bethlehem when it pleases God...
In Rome Lady Birgitta had this revelation which speaks about
the glorious sword of sorrow that pierced the soul
of the Blessed Virgin Mary and which the just man Simeon
foretold to her in the temple.
A revelation which blessed Francis showed to Lady Birgitta
wherein he invited her to his chamber to eat and to drink
and explained to her spiritually that his chamber was obedience
and that his food was to convert souls to God
and that his drink was to see...
Lady Birgitta had this revelation in the city of Ortona,
in the kingdom of Naples. Christ speaks to her and assures
her that there are relics of the body of Saint Thomas the Apostle
on the altar there and that he takes a most
sweet delight in these relics...
Lady Birgitta had this revelation in Naples
at the request of Lord Elzear, son of the countess of Ariano and,
at that time, a young scholar of good disposition.
He had then asked Lady Birgitta to pray to God for him...
In the year of our Lord, 1371, in the month of May,
on the day of blessed Urban, pope and martyr,
when Lady Birgitta had been living in Rome for many years...
In Rome before Lady Birgitta went overseas a certain
devout Friar Minor consulted the said lady concerning
some doubts in his conscience...
After the abovesaid friar had received from Lady Birgitta
the last revelation above, he asked her to pray to God
concerning the matter of Christ's private property...
How Christ, speaking to Lady Birgitta during prayer,
instructs her to go now to Jerusalem and promises
to her bodily strength and the necessary expenses.
The Virgin Mary, speaking to Lady Birgitta,
says that in no way is it God's will that clerics
should have wives or be contaminated by carnal vice...
This is the beginning of a revelation that Lady Birgitta
had in Naples for the lady queen of the same city...
This revelation was given by God to Lady Birgitta
in Naples at the request of Lord Bernard,
the Neapolitan archbishop. He asked her to pray to God
concerning some doubts he had in his conscience...
This revelation, made to Lady Birgitta,
began in Naples immediately after the death
of her son Lord Charles, a knight...
Lady Birgitta had this revelation in the
holy city of Jerusalem, the first time that she was in the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre...
This vision Lady Birgitta saw in Jerusalem in the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre in the chapel of Mount Calvary,
on the Friday after the octave of the Ascension of the Lord...
Christ complains to the bride about all the earth's princes
and prelates because they will not keep in their memory
and recall in their heart these his sorrows and his passion
and because they will not consider those
sacred places of the Holy Land...
When Lady Birgitta was in Jerusalem, she was doubtful
as to whether it were better for her to lodge in the
monastery of the Friars Minor on Mount Zion
or in the pilgrims' hostel in Jerusalem...
In the kingdom of Cyprus, Lady Birgitta was asked
by Lady Eleanor, the queen of the said kingdom,
to pray to God for her son the king and for that kingdom...
A revelation made to Lady Birgitta in the holy city
of Jerusalem concerning the kingdom of Cyprus and its reformation,
which she her self transmitted to the lord king
and to the prince of Antioch...
In the kingdom of Cyprus, a certain Friar Minor asked
the said lady to advise him as to what he ought to do
about some doubts in his conscience,
especially concerning the observance of the Rule of his order...
A vision that Lady Birgitta had in Bethlehem,
where the Virgin Mary showed to her the whole manner
of her childbearing and how she gave birth to her glorious Son
just as the Virgin herself had promised
the same Lady Birgitta in Rome...
A revelation in Bethlehem at the manger of the Lord,
on the same matter as above.
It was at the manger of the Lord that this revelation
was made to the same lady in Bethlehem:
how the shepherds came to the manger
to adore the newborn Christ.
This revelation she had in Bethlehem, in the chapel
where Christ was born. In it, Mary tells her how the
three magi kings adored Christ, her Son.
The Mother of God, speaking to Lady Birgitta,
tells her some things about
her own humility and that of her Son...
When Lady Birgitta now wished to return
from Jerusalem to Rome, she went on the birthday
of the Virgin Mary to visit her sepulchre
and the other shrines that are there near the city of Jerusalem...
When Lady Birgitta, in returning from Jerusalem,
passed through the city of Naples, at the request
of the lady queen and of the archbishop of the said city
she prayed to God for that same city's inhabitants...
A revelation of the Virgin Mary which Lady Birgitta had
in the city of Naples. And she directs it
to Lord Bernard, the Neapolitan archbishop...
A certain bishop, who was the ruler of the
March of Ancona on behalf of the holy Roman Church,
asked Lady Birgitta about the fact that he was pricked in
conscience on the grounds that he was absent and too
remote from his diocese because of his...
The Judge complains to the bride about the universal
number of sinners of all states and conditions,
narrating the good deeds that he did for them
and their ingratitude. He also threatens them with the terrible
sentence of his wrath. Nevertheless, he admonishes them
to be converted to him;
and he will receive them with mercy, like a father.
In Rome Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
foretelling to her the day and manner of her death
and ordering what should be done with the books of revelations...