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Also known as Ansgarius or Scharies.
Confessor of the faith; apostle of the North.
Born in 801 at Picardy, France; died in 865 in Bremen, Germany.
A Benedictine monk at Corbie, he went as a missionary to Sweden and on his return was made first Archbishop of Hamburg and papal legate of the northern nations.
He revived the Abbey of Turholt in Flanders and established a school there.
Winning the protection of King Eric of Denmark, he continued his missionary labors in Sweden and Denmark.
A monumental cross has been erected in his honor on an island in Lake Malar, near Stockholm.
The preface to his Life of Saint Willehad is a masterpiece.
Relics at Bremen, Hamburg, and Copenhagen.
Feast, 3 February.
New Catholic Dictionary
