ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 1st of November WELCOME! SAINT HAROLD VI., KING OF DENMARK, MARTYR The Archbishops of Bremen from St Willehad, the apostle of Saxony, and St Anscharius [Ansgar], the first archbishop of Bremen, laboured successfully in planting the Faith in the northern parts of Europe. Eric the Younger, king of Denmark, was converted to the faith by St Anscharius. BEGINNINGS But his successors persecuted the Christians till Fronto VI king of Denmark, brother and successor of Swein I. embraced the faith of Christ in his wars in England, and sent an ambassador to Pope Agapetus II about the year 950; but died before the return of the embassy, so that his conversion produced little fruit in that nation. Gormo III. the third king from him, was a cruel persecutor of the Christians, and demolished a church which they had built at Schleswig. But marrying Thyra, an English princess, he promised to become a Christian. A CHRISTIAN PRINC...