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This page is a list of Scandinavian saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in Sweden , Norway , Iceland , Finland , and Denmark .
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.
This is a list of Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, and Servants of God who were born in, lived in, died in, or visited Europe. Lists of saints by country or region [ edit ]
Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, [4] 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 ...
Saints who are also venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church are in Category:German saints or its subcategories Category:Saints of Germania and Category:Medieval German saints. Pages in category "German Roman Catholic saints"
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She is the patroness saint of Prussia and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. [ 9 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] She was called "the first Prussian anchoress ". [ 5 ] There are few records of Jutta's life because anchoritic life was unusual outside of southwest Germany, although her biography appears in the Acta Sanctorum .
The feast day of St Sebaldus as August 19 appeared in a calendar of Olmütz of 1131–1137, and many children born in that city bore the saint's name. The relics of the saint were translated in 1397 to the new choir of the church of Saint Sebaldus, and every year his relics were carried in procession. The kings and emperors of Germany, when in ...