Saint Ingrid of Skänninge
13th-century Swedish Dominican nun and prioress, Catholic saint, founder of Skänninge Abbey
Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Skänninge in Sweden, Blessed Ingrid Elofsdotter, who, left a widow, consecrated all her goods to the glory of God and, after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, took the habit of the nuns of the Order of Preachers.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 2 September as a widow who gave her goods to God and became a Dominican nun after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 2 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q444475 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ingrid of Skänninge (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.