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ST HENRY, ARCHBISHOP OF UPSALA, MARTYR - 19 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINT HENRY, ARCHBISHOP OF UPSALA, MARTYR  Saint Henry was an Englishman, and preached the faith in the North with his countryman, Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear, the apostle of Norway, and legate of the holy see, afterwards Pope Adrian IV by whom he was raised to this see, in 1148.  HE SET OUT TO EVANGELISE FINLAND, TOO St Eric, or Henry, (for it is the same name,) was then the holy king of Sweden. Our saint, after having converted several provinces, went to preach in Finland, which that king had lately conquered. He deserved to be styled the apostle of that country, but fell a martyr in it, being stoned to death at the instigation of a barbarous murderer, whom he endeavoured to reclaim by censures, in 1151.  PRAYERS FOR HIS INTERCESSION AT HIS TOMB His tomb was in great veneration at Upsala, till his ashes were scattered on the change of religion, in the sixteenth century.  ...