Saint Jon Helgi Ogmundarson

Also known as

• Apostle to Iceland
• Ogmund

Memorial

• 8 March

Profile

Spiritual student of Isleifur, bishop of Skalholt, Iceland. First bishop of Holar, Iceland in 1106. Great evangelist of the island.

Died

• 1121 of natural causes

Canonized

• 1201 by Pope Innocent III

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Jon Helgi Ogmundarson”. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 March 2012. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jon-helgi-ogmundarson/>