Olaus Petri
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Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson, better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri, was a clergyman, writer, judge, and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brothe
Statue of Olaus and Laurentius Petri in Örebro, Sweden
Petri outside Storkyrkan, Stockholm
Statue of Olaus Petri in front of Storkyrkan
Gustav Vasa
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Gustav Eriksson Vasa, also known as Gustav I, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560. He was previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm from 1521, during the Swedish War of Libera
Olaus Petri
…who had been named archdeacon in 1520, ran the diocese. The massacre provoked the Swedish War of Liberation, including the election and crowning of Gustav Vasa as King of Sweden, in Strängnäs in 1523. Olaus (whose father died in 1521, after which he and his brother had joined the insurgents under Vasa's…
Portrait by Jakob Binck, 1542
Christian II, Gustav Vasa's main antagonist
Roggeborgen, in Strängnäs, was a central location during the events when Gustav Eriksson was elected king of Sweden.
Gustav Vasa examines the Finnish translation of the New Testament presented by Mikael Agricola.