Saints celebrated on the 19th of July
Pope Benedict, who was exiled to Hamburg, had a chaplain called Poppo. Poppo is said to have been Italian by birth, or perhaps was a German whose name was Folkmar, which Latin and Italian historians translate as Poppo.
A religious preacher in Denmark, Poppo worked miracles, as the Danish and Swedish martyrologists testify. Around the year 965, Poppo converted the Danish King Harold. He wavered for a long time until Poppo, in order to prove to the ruler the power of Jesus Christ, carried a glowing iron rod a long distance without hurting himself. Thereupon Harold commanded all his subjects to abandon the false gods and to worship Christ alone as God. For this his son Swein revolted, placed himself at the head of a dissatisfied mob and disposed his father. After Harold's conversion Poppo became Bishop of Bremen.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 965)
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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