Katarina af Vadstena var en svensk birgittinernonne og siden helgen, der levede 1331 - 1381. Hendes fødenavn var Katarina Ulfsdotter og var datter af den hellige Birgitta af Vadstena og Ulf Gudmarsson.
Katarina blev ganske ung bortgiftet til den fornemme Egard Lydersson von Kyren. Inspireret af tidens jomfrulighedsideal overtalte hun sin mand til at respektere hendes mødom, hvilket han gjorde.
I år 1349 drog moderen Birgitta af sted på sin pilgrimsfærd til Rom for at få pavens godkendelse af hendes nye klosterorden. Katarina fulgte efter moderen året efter. Kort tid senere kom der bud fra Sverige om manden Egards død. Moder og datter forblev i Rom i mange år, hvor de levede et klosterlignende liv i fattigdom og bøn. Efter Birgittas død 1373 førte Katarina sin mors jordiske levninger tilbage til Sverige i triumf. 1375 vendte Katarina tilbage til Rom for at få Birgittinerordenens regeler bekræftede, samt for at udvirke Birgittas kåring til helgen.
Ligesom sin mor skal Katarina have modtaget himmelske åbenbaringer. I den sidste tid i Vadstena var Katarina meget syg. Hun døde den 24. marts 1381. Tre biskopper forrettede hendes begravelse, og der sås mange overnaturlige tegn ved hendes grav. Pave Innocent 8. tillod 1484 Katarinas helgendyrkelse i Sverige. Den højtidlige skrinlæggelse, der modsvarer nutidens kanonisering skete i Vadstena den 1. august 1489. Hendes helgendag i den romersk-katolske kirke er den 24. marts.
I kirkekunsten vises hun med en lampe, fordi hun var en forstandig jomfru, samt med en hjort eller hind, som under en pilgrimsfærd frelste hende fra at blive bortført af en forsmået bejler.
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Har senere tilføjet navnet Straagaard efter mormoren.
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Christiane Julie Louise Seidel
Christiane Seidel is an American-born German-Danish actress, living in New York City, noted for her acting roles as Martha in the Netflix mini-series western, Godless, and as the Norwegian Sigrid Mueller in the HBO TV drama series Boardwalk Empire.
Seidel was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, to a Danish mother and a German father, who was serving in the navy. She was raised in Europe, both in Denmark and in Germany. Seidel gained a degree in Media Management in Europe before returning to the US to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Susan Batson Studio, both in New York, to pursue her acting career. Seidel is also fluent in English, German, French and Danish and enjoys tennis, volleyball, skiing and swimming.
Seidel's US television debut was as a Guest Star on NBC Universal's police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's season 12 premiere episode in 2010. She starred as FBI Agent Sarah DeSoto in the noir-feature film, The Hollow in 2015, and as Sybille Ranisch in Schmidts Katze in 2014,[8] and has appeared in many other short films. She also starred as Sigrid Mueller, the Norwegian wife to rogue FBI Agent Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) in the HBO TV drama series Boardwalk Empire from season 2 to season 5 (2012 - 2015). As of 2015, Seidel is a member of the Scandinavian American Theater Company, a theater company which has introduced several Scandinavian plays to the United States. In 2017, Seidel played Martha, a mysterious, free-spirited German stranger, in the Netflix mini-series Godless, starring alongside Michelle Dockery and Jeff Daniels.
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