Mariager Abbey

Subsequent kings of Denmark - Hans, Christian I and Frederick I - all provided additional income through grants of rent rights over the next few decades.

It has been suggested that the source of this fame was because of relics deposited for the "veneration of the faithful", perhaps something connected to Saint Bridget but to date no specific evidence of this has been located.

Nobles, merchants, and wealthy farmers began buying burial sites or building chapels, so they could be buried on the grounds.

It was unusual because it had two choirs, the larger on the east for the nuns on a gallery high up between the pillars on the second and the third span, and a smaller on the west for the monks on the ground floor.

Consequently, Mariager Abbey existed for just over a hundred years before the majority of Danes rejected the institutions and customs of their long Catholic past.

During the Reformation Mariager Abbey became crown property, in 1536, but was allowed to continue to operate until 1588, part of the time as a home for unmarried noble women.