After converting to Catholicism in Innsbruck in 1655, she travelled to Rome, where she remained until her death.ĭue to her all-round education, she became a key figure in the religious and cultural life of the period. A lifelong aversion to marriage played an important role in her abdication in 1654. Her education was also influenced by the humanism of the Renaissance, and in the course of time she also developed a profound interest in natural sciences. In preparation for her reign, she received a distinctly male education and upbringing based on the ideals of classical antiquity, formulated by Herodotus as being the ability to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth. Queen Christina of Sweden was the daughter of the Swedish warrior king Gustav II Adolf, the standard bearer of the Protestant world.
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