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| Stockholm is located across several small islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. The city shares a common history with Zürich and Münich as being monopolistic centres of religious taxes and trade. | |||||
The deed for the land now occupied by Stockholm was originally granted exclusively to the Roman Cult as "Papal Land" by local chieftan Birger Magnusson (1210- 1271) around 1248 to Roman Cult (papal) diplomat William of Modena as part of the larger agreement to share the wealth of mineral rights for rich metal deposits to the north of Lake Mälaren known as Bergslagen. |
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| By 1250, an oak fort was built atop the Island of Stadsholmen as a Franciscan mission and trading post, with the earliest written record of the "oak fort" Stockholm mentioned in 1252. Within twenty years, Stockholm had become the wealthiest trade post in the region and by 1270 the Franciscans had successfully completed a grand Church and monastery called Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church). | |||||
| However, in 1271 AntiPope Gregory X (1271-1276) took power and promptly expelled the Franciscans from the Papal Land of Stockholm, granting the rich trading post to the Dominicans as absolute rulers. With the massive wealth provided by the export of metals and material at their disposal, the "Blackfriars" constructed their own exclusive fortress city, infamous for bloodthirsty satanic practices by these monks. | |||||
| Many of the ancient streets and locations of the Gamla Stan still bear the hallmarks of the Dominicans including Svartmangatan "Black Man/Blackfriar Street" and the main ancient thoroughfare to one of the massive Dominican monasteries at Prästgatan called Helvetesgränd ("Alley to Hell")--presumably on account of the horrors wich awaited those less fortunate to enter the realm of the Dominicans. | |||||
| The Roman Cult and Dominicans continued to maintain alliances with local rulers such as King Magnus Eriksson (1316–1377) who continued to honor the original deed of the land being a Papal State under the absolute control of the Dominicans. To demonstrate the extraordinary wealth and power of the Order over (by this stage) the fully fortified and walled city, the Dominicans built the elaborate Storkyrkan--Stockholm Cathedral as well as extended their fortress on Stadsholmen. | |||||
| The bloodthirsty reign of the Dominicans over their "Venice" ended around November 1520 when King Christian II of Denmark invaded Stockholm and executed all the Dominican priests and their militia in what became known as the "Stockholm Bloodbath". The fugure claimed today of 90 deaths is probably one tenth of the number of priests, nuns and senior soldiers killed as the main fortress monastery was destroyed on Stadsholmen . | |||||
| As the Danish Kings were Lutheran and against the Roman Cult, the city of Stockholm --legally Papal Land -- first fell into the hands of the Reformation. | |||||
| The Jesuits in Stockholm | |||||
| The AntiPopes in Rome did not have to wait long for an opportunity to win back effective control of their beloved Papal city of Stockholm when King John III of Sweden (1568-1592) ascended the throne. A Roman cult sympathizer, he permitted the Jesuits under Antonio Possevino, S.J. ( 1533-1611) to come to Stockholm and establish themselves in the old Franciscan Monastery and Church of Riddarholmskyrkan--the Church of Swedish Kings from that point until the present day. | |||||
| King John III also happend to mysteriously come into a great deal of money-- so much so he was able to commission the building of an extraordinarily large Renaissance-style Palace on the former ruins of the Dominican monastery and torture chambers on Stadsholmen. From this point on, the Monarchs of Sweden have largely made Stockholm their capital. | |||||
| Under the guidance and favour of the Jesuits at Riddarholmskyrkan, the Swedish Empire and Stoclholm continued to grow in wealth. However, at the outbreak of the Great Northern War (1700-1721), the city fell into rapid decline with massive outbreaks of plague. | |||||
| During the disbandment of the Jesuits (1773- 1814), the Swedish Royal family protected a number of Jesuits making it the oldest site for the continued influence of Jesuits anywhere in the world. | |||||
| Upon their re-establishment Stockholm profited enormously as a key site for commerce banking, education and rebuilding. | |||||
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