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Hey there, Sprowuss. Today is Tuesday, July 23rd, 2004. Today is also the feast day of St. Bridget of Sweden. St. Bridget of Sweden lived in the 1300s, and she is both the foundress of a religious order and a nun.

But before that, before she did those things, she was a wife and a mother.

In fact, she was married for 28 years and had eight children.

She was part of the royalty.

In fact, she was a servant to the queen, and her holy example, virtue she lived by

influenced not only the queen, but the entire royal court.

When she was still married, St. Bridget started to have dreams.

Dreams that were sometimes prophesied the future, sometimes worn about misdeeds.

But she had these very powerful dreams.

And when her husband died, she became a Franciscan.

She founded a monastery.

And even as she went to build this new order and travel

around Europe, talking to the Pope and others, she was still a mother. In fact, shortly before

she died, her son fell in love with a married woman and ruined two marriages. And through her prayers

and her counsel, he repented. They both did. And they both returned to the church. She died,

in fact, when she was in Rome. But she remains a powerful example not only for mothers, but also for all Christians.

Now this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the sixth truth of the

corigma.

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