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Ansgar

Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.

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Died: 0865-02-03
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Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Ansgar
Saint.birth_date: 8 September 801
Saint.feast_day: 3 February
Saint.venerated_in: Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchAnglican CommunionLutheranism
Saint.image: Bendixen Ansgar.jpg
Saint.caption: A depiction of Saint Ansgar by Siegfried Bendixen from the Church Trinitatis, in Hamburg, Germany
Saint.birth_place: Corbie, Frankish Kingdom
Saint.death_place: Bremen, East Francia
Saint.titles: Apostle of the North
Saint.canonized_by: Pope Nicholas I
Saint.attributes: Dressed in archbishop's attire with a model of the church

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Born: 8 September 801
Died: 3 February 865

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Instance of: human
Given name: Ansgar
Gender: male
Citizenship: Carolingian Empire
Place of birth: Amiens
Place of death: Bremen
Occupation: archbishop
Languages spoken: Latin
Religion: Catholic Church
Image: Peiffer - St. Ansgar - Trostbrücke Hamburg cropped.jpg

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Life
Death and legacy
Visions
See also
References
Further reading
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==Life== Ansgar was the son of a noble Frankish family, born near Amiens (present-day France). After his mother's early death, Ansgar was brought up in Benedictine monastery of Corbie in Picardy. According to the Vita Ansgarii ("Life of Ansgar"), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Mary, mother of Jesus, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness. His pupil, successor, and eventual biographer Rimbert considered the visions (of which this was the first) to have been Ansgar's main life motivator.