Petrus de Dacia
Illustration — Seal of Petrus de Dacia. Petrus de Dacia (c. 1235 – 1289) was a 13th-century Swedish friar of the Dominican Order.
Petrus de Dacia
Illustration ur en fransk handskrift av Roman de la Rose från 1400. · Public domain
- Born
- 1235 · Gotland.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- hagiographer · writer · prior
- Known for
- Vita Christinae Stumbelensis · De gratia naturam ditante sive de virtutibus Christinae Stumbelensis
- Languages
- medieval Latin · Old Swedish
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Illustration — Seal of Petrus de Dacia. Petrus de Dacia (c. 1235 – 1289) was a 13th-century Swedish friar of the Dominican Order.
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He was most noted for his correspondence with the mystic and ecstatic Christina von Stommeln. Though he wrote in Latin, Petrus de Dacia is often credited as the first author in Sweden.
Petrus de Dacia was born around 1235 on the Swedish island of Gotland. He entered the Dominican order and studied in Cologne from 1266 to 1269 and in Paris from 1269 to 1270. In 1271 he was appointed lector in the convent at Skänninge in Östergötland. In 1283 he became Prior of Sankt Nicolaus abbey church in Gotland where he died in 1288. While at Cologne, he had met Christina von Stommeln (1242–1312). Christina lived around Stommeln near Cologne and had entered the convent of the Beguines at Cologne. Over a period of two decades, she reportedly received stigmata on an annual basis. Petrus visited Christine in 1270 on his way back from Paris and again in 1279. He also maintained a lifetime correspondence with her.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q778729: Petrus de Dacia
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 118593366, Petrus, de Dacia Gothensis.
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• Sebastian Sobecki (2006). "Peter of Dacia". In Geary, Patrick, Lexikon des Mittelalters/International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. • p/petrus_c_da • Petrus de Dacia, Om den saliga jungfrun Kristina av Stommeln trans. by Tryggve Lundén (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 1950),
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- 1.Friedrich Ochsner: Petrus De Dacia Gothensis, Mystiker der Freundschaft (englisch)
- 2.Codes Iuliacensis, Handschrift aus dem frühen 14. Jahrhundert, seit 1973 als Depositum im Bischöflichen Diözesanarchiv Aachen
- 3.Catholic Encyclopedia
- 4.E. Renan: Une idylle monacale au XIIIe siecle. In: Revue des deux mondes, 50. Jahrgang, 3. Periode, Bd. 39, Paris 1880, S. 290 f.
- 5.W. Oehl: Deutsche Mystikerbriefe des Mittelalters 1100 - 1500. Darmstadt 1972, unveränd. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1931
- 6.Seligsprechungsakten, Rom 1908, Summarium objectionale, S. 12–72
- 7.Peter Nieveler: Christina von Stommeln. Jülich 1986
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q778729: Petrus de DaciaWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 118593366, Petrus, de Dacia Gothensis.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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