Petrus de Dacia (Swedish monk)

Swedish monk
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSwedish monk
PlacesSweden
wasWriter Biographer
Work fieldLiterature Science
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1235, Gotland, Gotland Municipality, Gotland County, Sweden
Death1 January 1289Visby, Gotland Municipality, Gotland County, Sweden (aged 54 years)
The details

Biography

Petrus de Dacia (Latin: Peter from Denmark) was a Swedish monk of the Dominican order who lived in Gotland from the 1230s to 1289. Though he wrote in Latin, he is often credited as the first author in Sweden.

Petrus de Dacia is famous for his correspondence with and his 15 visits to Christina von Stommeln, a Beguine, the first woman to have reportedly received stigmata (source: Codex Iuliacensis, ca. 1320–1350). Christina lived around Stommeln near Cologne; Stommeln was part of the County of Jülich of the Holy Roman Empire, where her relics are venerated.

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