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Scandinavian countries include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Åland Islands This page is a list of Scandinavian saints , blesseds , venerables , and Servants of God , as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church .
Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373), Patron Saint of Europe.. This list of Swedish saints includes all Christian saints with connections to Sweden, either because they were of Swedish origin and ethnicity or because they travelled to the Swedish people from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography for their work.
Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Lithuanian Orthodox saint; Stephen Hungarian Catholic Saint; Tekle Haymanot, Greek priest; Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos, Greek bishop; Théophane Vénard, Vietnamese martyr; Titus Brandsma, Dutch friar; Vicenta María López i Vicuña, Spanish martyr; Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Patron saint; Yegor Chekryakovsky ...
Catholic church buildings existed in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Gävle. The psalm book Cecilia was published in 1902. In 1920, the first edition of the news and cultural magazine Credo was released, today known as Signum. During and after World War II, the Catholic population
Denmark has several saints, canonized by local bishops as was the custom in early Scandinavia or revered by locals as saints. Often these saints derive their veneration from deeds associated with the Christianization of Denmark. Viborg has St Kjeld, Aarhus has St Niels (also called St Nickolas), Odense has St Canute (Danish: Sanct Knud).
The Catholic Church in the Nordic countries was the only Christian church in that region before the Reformation in the 16th century. Since then, Scandinavia has been a mostly non- Catholic ( Lutheran ) region and the position of Nordic Catholics for many centuries after the Reformation was very difficult due to legislation outlawing Catholicism .
Saint Sunniva (10th century; Old Norse Sunnifa, from Old English Sunngifu) is the patron saint of the Norwegian Church of Norway Diocese of Bjørgvin, as well as all of Western Norway. Sunniva was venerated alongside her brother Alban, who in Norwegian tradition was identified with Saint Alban, the Roman-era British saint.
On 1 October 1999, Pope John Paul II named Saint Bridget a patron saint of Europe. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Her feast day is celebrated on 23 July, the day of her death. Her feast was not in the Tridentine calendar , but was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1623 for celebration on 7 October, the day of her 1391 canonization by Pope Boniface IX .