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Also known as Saint Ansgar, Ansgarius, St. Ansgar, St. Anschar, Anschar

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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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
Saint.patronage
Scandinavia, Missionaries

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Peiffer - St. Ansgar - Trostbrücke Hamburg cropped.jpg
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Saint Ansgar
date of birth
0801-09-08
nickname
Nordens apostel
date of death
0865-02-03
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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.

==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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