The Revelations of Saint Birgitta

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Chapter 1. Advice to a Bishop about Temperance in His Daily Life.
Chapter 2. On the Pitfalls of the Narrow, Thorny, and Rocky Path That the Bishop Must Tread.
Chapter 3. On the Bishop's Miter; on His Reputation As a Bouquet of Flowers.

Chapter 4. Parable about a Prudent Canon Who Is Ridiculed by His Slack Bishop; the Humiliation of the Bishop after His Death.
Chapter 5. A Helmsman Tosses His People in a Storm; on Birgitta's Calling.
Chapter 6. An Allegory about an Adulterous Husband Who Spends Nine Out of Every Ten Hours with His Housemaid Rather Than His Wife.

Chapter 7. The Same Bishop Is Like a Bellows and a Snail; He Is Compared to St. Ambrose.
Chapter 8. Mary Is Like a Nut; She Can Discern Wisdom; Birgitta Must Ask a Scholar Three Questions.
Chapter 9. Even for Those with Impaired Senses, Disasters and Avalanches Still Occur.

Chapter 10. The Church Is Near to Collapse; Mary Is Like a Rainbow; the Addendum Describes Papal Nuncios.
Chapter 11. John the Baptist Describes a Bishop Who Is Like a Monkey; the Addendum Describes a Cardinal Legate.
Chapter 12. Blessed Agnes Discusses a Bishop at a Crossroads; Another Bishop Is Mentioned.

chapter 13. On a Treasure Locked Up in a Fortified Castle, Which a Bishop Should Attempt to Penetrate.
chapter 14. Mary Compares a Bishop to a Butterfly.
chapter 15. Mary Continues about Another Bishop Who Is Likened to a Gadfly, and Condemns Both Men.

chapter 16. The Same Two Bishops Enter into Dialogue; One Is Condemned at the End.
chapter 17. The Virgin Praises Saint Dominic and His Rule.
chapter 18. Contemporary Dominican Friars Have Relaxed the Precepts of Their Rule.

chapter 19. Reassurance for Birgitta on Why the Above Dominican Bishop Was Called but Not Chosen.
chapter 20. How St. Benedict Was Filled with the Holy Spirit in Creating His Rule.
chapter 21. More on St. Benedict, with the Images of Three Fires and Three Sparks.

chapter 22. About a Benedictine Abbot Who Is Attracted to Harlots.
chapter 23. A Deliberation on the Day's Epistle about the Trinity.
chapter 24. Allegory of a Maiden and Her Nine Brothers and the Love of the King's Sons for the Maiden.

chapter 25. Mary Speaks of the World's Neglect of Her Little Son.
chapter 26. On the Mystery of the Trinity.
chapter 27. On the State of the City of Rome Using a Grammatical Analogy; A Vision of Some Gardens on Earth.

chapter 28. The Virgin Describes Four Cities Where Four Types of Love Are to Be Found.
chapter 29. Mary Is Like the Temple of Salomon.
chapter 30. Blessed Agnes Encourages Birgitta in Her Studies.

chapter 31. On a Doctor, a King, and Two Imprisoned Men.
chapter 32. Mary Is Like a Magnet.
chapter 33. About Two Men, One Like a Square-set Stone, the Other Like a Pilgrim to Jerusalem.

chapter 34. About a Ring That Is Too Tight, and an Unclean Filter for a Drink.