{"id":340,"date":"2018-01-23T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T12:29:22","slug":"76th-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"76- Mary meets St. Bridget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iframe%20style=border:%20none%20src=\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6178436\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/%20height=90%20width=100%%20scrolling=no%20%20allowfullscreen%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20oallowfullscreen%20msallowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6178436\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century Roman Catholic Saint had 8 children, starting a religious order, spent time in Rome plus raised a saint (St. Catherine of Sweden) as she wrote accounts of her visits from the Madonna and Jesus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget1.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Bridget of Sweden looking up at a beam of light shining down on her from heaven\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Bridget of Sweden documented many of her visitations which were confirmed in 1436.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-342\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-3-164x300.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful mosiac of St. Bridget of Sweden who holds a quill for writing and a notebook\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-3-164x300.jpg 164w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-3.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 85vw, 164px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Bridget of Sweden sometimes portrayed with a quill to write with and a book to write in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-2.jpg\" alt=\"This insight inscribed over an painting of St. Bridget &quot;Close your ears to empty words so that you may come to hear the Angel's song&quot;\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-2.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bridget-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An insight of St. Bridget from her works offering people words of wisdom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/St-Catherine-220x300.gif\" alt=\"A beautiful illustration of St Catherine, Saint Bridget's daughter.\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beautiful illustration of St Catherine, Saint Bridget&#8217;s daughter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycatholic.org\/bridget.htm\">St. Bridget&#8217;s writings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notablebiographies.com\/supp\/Supplement-A-Bu-and-Obituaries\/Bridget-of-Sweden.html\">A biography of St. Bridget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therealpresence.org\/eucharst\/misc\/PHP\/par_sb_sweden.pdf\">St. Bridget about the Virgin Mary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/theapparitionsan02walsuoft\/theapparitionsan02walsuoft_djvu.txt\">William J. Walsh&#8217;s book <em>Heaven&#8217;s Bright Queen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Constant Processions explore key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she passed on from the world and how the impact of her requests to humanity has served to influence our historical past and the present.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the entire book from cover to cover in Season 1 (podcasts 1-49) \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=4\">To listen from the beginning of the book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since installment 50, new stories about apparitions the Virgin Mary that are not in the book are presented and bring to life more amazing visitations not found in my book, but just as fascinating!<\/p>\n<p>Podcasts are published every Tuesday morning and run seven minutes in length and can be found on my website.<\/p>\n<p>I value feedback via email at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century Roman Catholic Saint had 8 children, starting a religious order, spent time in Rome plus raised a saint (St. Catherine of Sweden) as she wrote accounts of her visits from the Madonna and Jesus. St. Bridget&#8217;s writings A biography of St. Bridget St. Bridget about the Virgin Mary William &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;76- Mary meets St. Bridget&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}