The picture was signed: INSTITUTUM ORDINI SCRIBIT (is writing the Rule for the Order). This is the first image on which we see the Saint dressed in the habit of the Bridgettine's Order. To the end of the cycle she will be shown in this way. In fact, she never wore the dress of the established order. In tradition, however, it is adopted presenting her in the abbess's habit.
St. Bridget's life was divided into two stages: secular in Sweden, when she was a wife and mother, and life in Rome after her husband's death. The second stage resembled the rhythm of monastic life: common prayers, meals, studies, penitential practices, pilgrimages, visiting churches for gaining indulgences.
In this image, a crucifix is standing on the table next to the Saint. Bridget is writing the words given to her by an angel who is bending over her behind the back of her chair. In the upper left corner of the picture we see a window through which light rays are emerging behind heavy clouds. They are falling down on the centre of the room. This is a divine sign of the custody of the newly established order.
Bridget received a commending to establish a new Order. It was in the spring of 1346, during a mystical rapture when she received a revelation concerning organization of the Order. The Rule of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour wrote in the monastery in Alwastra, Sweden. She went to Rome at the end of 1349 for approving it by the Pope.