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[[File:Der-Ansgar.jpg|thumb|right|St. Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg & Bremen.]][[Image:Ansgar.jpg|thumb|right|300px|St. Ansgar, etching by Hugo Hamilton (1830)]]Our Father Among father among the Saints [[saint]]s '''Ansgar''', Apostle of the North and Enlightener of Denmark (also '''Anskar''' or '''Oscar'''), [[Apostle]] of the North and [[Enlightener]] of Denmark and Sweden, ([[September 8]](?), 801 - – [[February 3]], 865) was [[archbishop ]] of Hamburg-Bremen. His [[feast day]] is [[celebrated on the date of his repose, February 3]].
==Life==
Ansgar was born in Amiens. He had for a period resided with the [[baptism|baptized]] Danish king Harald Klak, and when Louis the Pious at Worms in 829 was requested by two representatives from Sweden and the Swedish king Björn at Hauge, he appointed Ansgar [[missionary]]. The representatives had claimed that the several Swedes were willing to [[conversion|convert ]] to Christianity. Ansgar arrived at Birka in 829, with his aide friar Witmar, and a small [[congregation ]] was formed in 831, which included the king's own steward Hergeir as the most prominent member. The see of Hamburg was designated a "Mission to bring Christianity to the North," and thus St. Ansgar became known as the ''Apostle of the North''.
He died in 865 in Bremen. His [[hagiography]] was written by his successor as [[archbishop]], Rimbertof Turholt, in ''Vita Ansgari''.
A statue dedicated to him stands in Hamburg as well as , and a stone cross at Birka.
== External links ==
* [http://www.skolinternetorthodoxengland.teliabtinternet.se/TIS/birka/textengco.uk/histservansg.htm Commemoration of Our Father among the Saints Ansgar at Birka, Archbishop of Bremen & Hamburg, Enlightener of Denmark & the North] Composed by [[Reader]] [[Isaac Lambertson]] - History of Birka* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html ''Vita Ansgari''], English translation from the ''Internet Medieval sourcebookSourcebook''* [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/subject/hd/fak7/hist/c1/de/gen/gen/grmnhist/log.started920201/mail-16.html "A Brief History of Saint Anskar, Patron of Germany, Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen (A.D. 865)"] ''Butler's Lives of Patron Saints''. Edited by Michael Walsh. Harper & Row, Publishers: San Francisco, 1987.* [[w::Ansgar|Ansgar]]. Wikipedia.* Great [[Synaxarion|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/2008/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀνσέριος ὁ Ἀπόστολος τῆς Δανίας καὶ τῆς Σκανδιναβίας].'' 3 Φεβρουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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