Prologus
The Pilgrim's Journey
This section outlines the geographical and spiritual progression of Birgitta's revelations across Rome, Naples, and the Holy Land.
This book of heavenly revelations is the final one; Lady Birgitta received the revelations contained in it while in Rome, and when she first went on pilgrimage to Naples and to the Sanctuary of Saint Michael on Monte Gargano. After her return, however, while she was in Rome, she received some of the revelations that are contained here; and it was there that Christ told her in a vision that she should go on a pilgrimage across the sea to the holy city of Jerusalem. During that overseas journey, she received many revelations in Naples, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, just as had been promised to her divinely beforehand, as is recorded above in the Book of Questions in the final revelation given to her in the kingdom of Sweden. After she returned to Rome from Jerusalem, she had other revelations as well, which are included here.
The Final Promise
The prologue concludes with the account of Birgitta's death in Rome, preceded by a divine revelation of her final hour.
Then the lady mentioned above died in the city. Before she died, Christ revealed the time and day of her death to her in a vision, as everything is explained more fully below.1
Read the original Latin
Iste liber reuelacionum celestium est vltimus et has reuelaciones huius libri habuit domina Birgitta in Roma et quando iuit prima vice peregrinando ad Neapolim et ad Sanctum Angelum de Monte Gargano.
Post reuersionem vero dum esset in Roma, habuit aliquas, que hic continentur, et ibidem fuit sibi dictum diuinitus in visione a Christo, quod iret vltra mare peregrinando ad sanctam ciuitatem Iherusalem.
In illo autem viagio vltramarino habuit quamplures reuelaciones tam in Neapolim quam in Iherusalem et Bethleem, sicut diuinitus ei antea promissum fuit, vt supra in libro questionum in vltima reuelacione sibi data in regno Suecie continetur.
Et postquam reuersa fuit ad Romam de Iherusalem, habuit eciam aliquas, que hic continentur. Et tunc mortua est dicta domina in Vrbe.
Cui antequam moreretur predictum fuit a Christo in visione tempus et dies, quo mori debebat, vt hic omnia lacius inferius continentur.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin 'lacius' is a common medieval spelling variant for 'latius' (more broadly/fully).
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