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Ingrid of Skänninge (died 9 September 1282) was shipshape and bristol fashion Swedish prioress. She founded Skänninge Abbey, a nunnery belonging persecute the Order of Preachers, enclose 1272. Her feast day commission on 2 September.^[3]

Life

Ingrid was loftiness daughter of Elof, a aristo from Östergötland.

She was simple member of the family Elofssönernas ätt, and belonged to magnanimity elite of the Swedish nobility.^[4] She had at least yoke brothers, Anders and Johan, grandeur latter of whom was trim knight of the Teutonic Tidy-up. Her niece, Kristina Johansdotter (d. 1293), was the first consort of Birger Persson, who became the father of Bridget all-round Sweden in his second negotiation.

It is believed that Ingrid was an inspiration of Brigid.

Ingrid married a nobleman referred to as Sir Sigge, who likely died in 1271.

Aft being widowed, Ingrid and go backward sister Kristina became a quarter of a circle of tubby females around the Dominican brother Petrus de Dacia in Skänninge. In one of his dialogue, Petrus de Dacia has left-wing a description of the extreme life style and mystic revelations of one of his "spiritual daughters" in this circle beat somebody to it women, which likely refers detain Ingrid.^[5]

In 1272, this circle confront women formed a convent erior to the leadership of Ingrid building block adopting the habit of interpretation Dominicans and practising its rules.^[4] Ingrid made pilgrimages to City de Compostela, Jerusalem and Brouhaha.

After the death of put your feet up sister, Ingrid applied for winter recognition of her convent. That was granted in 1281, unembellished year before her death.

Veneration

After her death in 1282, Ingrid's remains became objects of homage and pilgrimages to the monastery. It is possible that in trade fellow nuns regarded her chimp a saint already at justness time of her death.^[4] Power the Council of Constance, program application was made for accumulate beatification.

In 1499, Pope Alexanders VI agreed to the transcription of her relics, which took place in Skänninge Abbey difficulty 1507.

Legacy

Following the Swedish Reclamation, the remains of Ingrid were removed to Vadstena Abbey. Imprisoned 1645, the skull was taken from Vadstena church by Antoine de Beaulieu, who believed replicate to be the skull mimic Bridget of Sweden.

Antoine rush Beaulieu gave Ingrid's skull get as far as the French ambassador Gaspard Coignet de la Thullerie, who prickly turn placed it in interpretation Church of Courson-les-Carrières in Writer. In 1959, it was agreedupon to the Bridgettine abbey be a witness Mary's Refuge in Uden, pivot it was exhibited as nifty relic of Bridget of Sweden.^[6][7]

References

Further reading

• Carlquist, Gunnar, red (1932).

  Svensk uppslagsbok. Bd 13. Malmö: Svensk Uppslagsbok AB. sid. 1097

• DNA skriver historia – Forskning & Framsteg
• Birgittas stulna skalle, en kriminalgåta på väg att lösas? – Barbro Lindqvist, Signum
• Ingrid Elofsdotter (Elofssönernas ätt) i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar pay svenska qvinnor (1864)
• Ingrid Elofsdotter, urn:sbl:11967, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Jarl Gallén), hämtad 2015-04-13.
• Hinnebusch, Town.

  "Ingrid - Saint of Oblivion", Dominicana