Source:
The Town and Country Magazine, Or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume 6, page 639 (December, 1774), published by Archibald Hamilton, 1774; original at Harvard University
The biography:
Christina, soon after her abdication, embraced the catholic religion at Brussels, and publickly abjured Lutheranism at Inspruck. The same evening she went to a comedy, performed for her entertainment, which gave the protestants, who did not believe her change sincere, occasion to say, "It is but just that the catholics should give her a comedy in the evening, as she gave them a farce in the morning."
The sincerity of her conversion had indeed been much doubted; and it ought here to be observed, that it was this princess who took for her motto, "Fate viam invenunt"; "The destinies direct my course;" and who made the famous reply to the Jesuits of Louvain. These Jesuits flatteringly said to her, that, since she was become catholic, she would be placed among the saints, and by the side of St. Bridget of Sweden. "I would much rather", replied she keenly, "be placed among the philosophers."
Above: Kristina.
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