Katarina (Catherine) of Vadstena (1331–1381) was the daughter of Saint Birgitta of Sweden. For a large part of her life, Katarina accompanied Birgitta on her journeys abroad. She returned to Sweden in 1374 after her mother’s death in Rome and became the first elected abbess of Vadstena Abbey. She was crucial in obtaining a papal confirmation of the Birgittine Rule and promoted the canonization of her mother. In the fifteenth century, accounts of Katarina’s life and miracles were collected in the Vita Katherine. Liturgical sequences and offices to her were also composed by Birgittines. Although Katarina was never canonized, her translation feast (removal of relics) took place in Vadstena Abbey in August 1489. Katarina was literate but did not produce any works of her own: The few preserved letters from her concern Vadstena and the Birgittine order. In the Vita, she appears as the embodiment of the Birgittine Rule, perfectly suited to explain it to the nuns in Vadstena.