Knightly Order of the Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Brigitta of Sweden

Heraldic symbol of the Knightly Order of the Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Brigitta of Sweden - It consists of a blue Maltese cross and a red flame under it.

The Knightly Order of the Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Brigitta of Sweden is a formerly spiritual, now a secular order of knights . It is also known as the Knightly Order of Saint Birgitta of Sweden .

The order was founded in Vadstena , Sweden, in 1366 . In 1378 the papal recognition by Pope Urban VI took place. The order of knights formed a military arm of the monastic order of Savior, founded in 1346 and still in existence today . At the latest in the course of the Reformation in Sweden, the knightly order was dissolved around 1550.

In 1859 the order of knights was reconstituted in Campania by Conte Vincenzo Abbate de Castello d'Orleans with a new headquarters in Capua . Since 1959 the order of knights has been recognized by the Supreme Court of Italy as a "non-national order", but there is no recognition by the Catholic Church.

Grand Master is Conte Federico Abbate de Castello Orleans; Bruno Schettino was the grand prior until 2012 .

literature

• Salvatore Fenicia: Un nobile e pio sodalizio cavalleresco, La Sacra Milizia del SS.Salvatore e di S. Brigida di Svezia , tipografia Agrelli, 1862
• Eugenio Bisogni: La Sacra e nobile milizia del SS. Salvatore o di S. Brigida di Svezia, e gli abbate de Castello Orléans: a cura del marchese Giovanni Bisogni e con prefazione de ... Piero Mariani , F. Ferrari, 1949
• Eugenio Bisogni, Giovanni Bisogni: La Sacra e nobile milizia del SS.Salvatore o di S. Brigida di Svezia, e gli Abbate de Castello Orléans , F. Ferrari, 1950

Web links

• Website of the order of knights
• Website of the Order of Knights, Province of Campania
• Directory of known knights of the order

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roman Czaja: Past and Present of the Knight Orders: The Reception of Idea and Reality , in: Volume 11 of Ordines militares: Colloquia Torunensia historica, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, 2001, page 156 f.
2. ^ ^{A b} "Ordine Militare del Santissimo Salvatore e di Santa Brigida di Svezia". Retrieved April 9, 2020 .  , dubito, July 31, 2012 (Italian)
3. ↑ Famiglia Abbate de Castello ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 26, 2012 (Italian)
4. ^ Ordine Militare del Santissimo Salvatore di Santa Brigida di Svezia: Nota Legale , accessed on September 26, 2012 (Italian)
5. ^ "Monsignor Schettino, I Cavalieri dell'Ordine Militare di Santa Brigida di Svezia rendono l'ultimo saluto" , September 25, 2012 (Italian)