Their story
Adapted in modern English from Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints · Baring-Gould original below · little is known
Butler spells her name Catharine. She was the daughter of Ulpho, prince of Nericia, and of St. Bridget. At seven she was placed in the nunnery of Risburgh. Her father arranged her marriage to Egard, a young nobleman, and she persuaded him that they should both vow to live chastely.
After her father's death she went with her mother on pilgrimages. When Bridget died in Rome in 1373, Catharine returned to Sweden and died as abbess of Vadzstena on 24 March. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on 1381.
Early life
Selected sentences from the original account, unaltered.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 110 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Katharine of Sweden was the daughter of Ulph, prince of Nierck, in Sweden, and S. Bridget. Being very beautiful, her father contracted her in marriage to Egard, a young nobleman of great virtue; but she persuaded her husband to live with her a life of perpetual chastity. After the death of her father, S. Katharine out of devotion undertook a pilgrimage with her mother to various holy places, and came to Rome, where S. Bridget died in 1373.
