Helena "Lena" Sophia Ekblom (24 June 1790 – 1859), known as Predikare-Lena ('Preacher-Lena') and Vita jungfrun[1] ('White Maiden') was a Swedish writer and preacher.
When her mother and her sister died shortly after each other in 1806, she had a stroke which permanently affected her movement in the left side of her body as well as her expression of speech.
[4] Her sermons became popular and attracted large crowds, and she began to wander around to conduct them and became a travelling preacher.
[4] She was treated leniently enough for her to write her work Den andeliga striden, which was her autobiography and a description of five spiritual visions.
[4] She regarded her visions and dreams as divine apparitions, which gave her the call and the right to contribute to the Kingdom of God on Earth.
[4] Ekblom are often characterized as a representative of the so-called "preaching illness" of her time, and gathered followers who contributed to the growing Christian revival in 19th-century Sweden.