Saint Gotteschalk
- Also known as
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Gotteschalc;
Gottschalk
- Memorial
- 7 June
- Profile
- Son of Udo, Prince of the Abrodites.
Prince of the Wends.
Raised a Christian, he turned apostate following the murder of his father, led armies into lands held by the Slavs, and then into England.
There, for reasons never clearly explained, he returned to the faith.
On his return from England, he subdued more of the Slavic countries, and went on period a great missionary work and church construction.
Gottschalk often interpreted to the people in the Sclavonian tongue the sermons and instructions of the priests in the church, which led to his patronage of linguists and translators.
Martyred.
- Died
- 7 June 1066;
murdered at the altar with 29 fellow missionaries in Lenzen, Pomerania, by assassins hired by his brother-in-law
- Patronage
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linguists,
lost vocations,
princes,
translators
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
New Catholic Dictionary
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