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Ansgar
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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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Ansgar (801–865) was a Catholic priest, diplomat, missionary, and writer who served as a bishop within the Carolingian Empire. Born in Amiens, he was a member of the Benedictine order and worked in the Duchy of Saxony. He is recognized as a Catholic saint with a feast day of February 3. His nickname is "Apostle of the North" (Nordens apostel).
Ansgar spoke Latin and was involved in significant events such as church building and flight. He died in Bremen. The subject has been described in sources including the Nordisk familjebok, Neue Deutsche Biographie, and Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Person · Open Library
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- 48
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· 1992 · cited 9,164x
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- Ansgar
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- 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
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- Dressed in archbishop's attire with a model of the church
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- Scandinavia, Missionaries
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ansgar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Carolingian Empire
- Place of birth
- Amiens
- Place of death
- Bremen
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Peiffer - St. Ansgar - Trostbrücke Hamburg cropped.jpg
- Work location
- Duchy of Saxony
- Significant event
- church building
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Saint Ansgar
- date of birth
- 0801-09-08
- feast day
- February 3
- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- described by source
- Wikitólica
- nickname
- Nordens apostel
- date of death
- 0865-02-03
- described at URL
- medieval.wiki.uib.no/Sanctus_Ansgarius
- subject has role
- bishop
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Works in European collections
10 objects attributed to Ansgar, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Life
- Death and legacy
- Visions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
==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.
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