Sara Oust (1778–1822) was a

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lay minister and follower of

Hans Nielsen Hauge Hans Nielsen Hauge (3 April 1771 – 29 March 1824) was a 19th-century Norwegian Lutheran lay minister, spiritual leader, business entrepreneur, social reformer and author. He led a noted Pietism revival known as the Haugean movement. Hauge is also ...

. She was one of the first female religious leaders within the

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Biography

Sara Oust was born at the village of Vingelen in the parish of Tolga in

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, Norway. She was the daughter of Engebret Engebretsen Vingelen and Mari Persdatter Røe. Being fatherless at the age of seven, Sara Oust helped her mother carry coal at the

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(''Røros kopparverk'')''.'' She first became aware of the teachings of

in 1799. She subsequently preached in

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between 1799 and 1805 alongside another female lay minister, Randi Hevle from

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, and later Kirsten Fossen from

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. She reportedly had a beautiful singing voice and she also wrote psalms. Under the Conventicle Act of 1741, Norwegian citizens at the time did not have the right to religious assembly without a

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minister present. She successfully defended a collective of Haugeans from the local authorities, who gave up their attempts to implement the law after having seen she had too much support from the community. She first met

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during 1803. In 1805, Sara Oust married Ola Toresen Røe (1776–1862), who was a farmer in Vingelen. Although following the death of Hans Nielsen Hauge in 1824, the Haugean Movement became less supportive of lay ministers.

References

Primary Source

*Bakken, Arne O. (1973) ''Haugianerne i Nord-Østerdal de første årene lederen Sara Oust 1778-1822'' (Oslo: Tolga bibliotek)

External links

Sara Oust-spel 2012

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