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« on: February 19, 2020, 09:59:08 PM »
Saint Anskar (Ansgar) (801-865) was the son of a noble Frankish family near Amiens.     
After his mother's early demise, he was brought up in Corbie Abbey, and was educated at the Benedictine monastery in Picardy.
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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2020, 11:37:42 AM »
In 822 Anskar became one of many missionaries sent to found the abbey of Corvey in Westphalia, where he became a teacher and preacher.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2022, 06:44:45 PM »
In 829, after the Swedish king Bjorn at Hague requested missionaries for his Swedes, King Louis   
sent Anskar. Anskar preached and made converts.
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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2024, 06:21:16 PM »
In 831 Anskar returned to King Louis' court at Worms and was appointed to the Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen.
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2026, 04:40:43 PM »
Anskar was consecrated as a bishop in November 831, with the approval of Pope Gregory IV.
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