Christina Abdicated in 1654

In early 16 54, when everyone thought this whole matter of abdicating had just been dropped, christina announced once again that she was going to abdicate. She negotiated a settlement that granted her some lands and some money, and it kept her as the sovereign of sweden. But during the interim, she started meeting with jesuits and talking about converting to catholicisms. When she was nine, a tutor had told her that catholicism did not allow lay people to read the bible, it encouraged celibacy and believed in purgatory. And her reaction to all f that was, oh, what a lovely religion.