Saint Thorlac Thorhallsson
- Also known as
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Thorlac Thorhalli
Porlakr Thorhallsson
- Memorial
- 23 December
- Profile
- Born to a noble family.
Deacon by age 15, priest by 18.
Studied in Paris and Lincoln, and visited London before returning to Iceland in 1161.
Refused an arranged marriage to a wealthy widow.
Founded an Augustinian abbey on his farmland, and served as its abbot.
Bishop of Skalholt, Iceland.
Fought simony and incontinency.
- Born
- 1133 at Iceland
- Died
- 1193 at Skalholt, Iceland of natural causes
- Canonized
- 1198 by the Icelandic Allthing
- Patronage
- Iceland
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