Månsdotter. They were allowed to remain in the building of the former convent with fourteen servants, who were to maintain the buildings and gardens for the crown, as the convent was now crown property. Ingegerd Månsdotter died during an unknown date. Karin Johansdotter officially employed as a gardener and caretaker of gardens of the former Abbey. After the death of Ingegerd Månsdotter, she was the only Catholic nun remaining in Sweden. In March 1605, Karin Johansdotter was charged with the theft of clothes and objects of brass and yin from the sealed stores of the Abbey, which was by then crown property. She pleaded guilty as charged, and confessed to have broken into the stores by climbing in through a window near the roof. This was a serious crime at the time, but Karin Johansdotter was evidently a popular person among the inhabitants of Vadstena, and a "Public petition" demanded that she be given a light sentence. As she was also the mother of an infant, the verdict was therefore mitigated to the loss of her employment and banishment from Vadstena and the province of Östergötland. References Lennart Jörälv: Reliker och mirakel. Den heliga Birgitta och Vadstena (2003) Ohlander, Ann-Sofie & Strömberg, Ulla-Britt, Tusen svenska kvinnoår: svensk kvinnohistoria från vikingatid till nutid, 3. [omarb. och utök.] uppl., Norstedts akademiska förlag, Stockholm, 2008 Antiqvarisk tidskrift Historiskt bibliotek utgifvet af Carl Silfverstolpe Bridgettine nuns 16th-century Swedish nuns 17th-century Swedish nuns Swedish nobility