Ansgar

[ ans-gahr ]

noun

1. Saint Apostle of the North, 801–865, French Benedictine priest and missionary: patron saint of Scandinavia.

Example Sentences

We booked a circuit which included St. Ansgar and Mitchell, two villages, one four, the other ten miles to the north.

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The Life of St Ansgar, from which this story is taken, is practically a contemporary authority.

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Ansgar started in the year of 830, accompanied by Witmar, also of the Corvey convent.

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In 846, Bremen was united to Hamburg and Ansgar was made archbishop.

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Accordingly in 829 Ansgar, expelled from Denmark, went to Sweden where he laboured two years with some success.

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