Name Lisa Eriksdotter | ||
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Similar Miriam Gonczarska, Ann Lee, Marina Tsvigun | ||
Elisabeth "Lisa" Eriksdotter (15 October 1733 in Kalanti - year of death unknown), was a Finnish preacher of the Rukoilevaisuus (Great Awakening: an evangelical movement in the Finnish Lutheran Church). Her religious visions and ecstasy resulted in the religious awakening movement in Finland, which became very active during the 18th-century, often centered on female visionaries, for which she became a role model.
Lisa Eriksdotter was the daughter of the farmer Erik Andersson and Liisa Jakobsdotter in Kytämäki. Around Halloween 1756, she was tending the cattle when she was affected by a vision of her sins and appending judgement. She was afflicted by cramp attacks in her fear of not being salvaged from hell, and this fear unleashed a wave of the same fear through the village and surrounding parishes, which resulted in the beginning of the Great Awakening. A great number of legends is centered on Lisa, but none of her visions are preserved. Her life after she left her home parish Kytämäki in 1759 is unknown.
A memorial is placed near the place of her birth, where religious followers still gather.