ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME! SAINT HOGERUS, ARCHBISHOP OF HAMBURG-BREMEN Saint Hogerus, also called Hoger, Hojerus and Hotgerns, was first coadjutor, then successor to Archbishop Adelgarius of Hamburg-Bremen. HE HAD BEEN A MONK AT CORVEY From his earlier life we only know that he was a monk at Corvey . Here, according to the Bollandists (Aug. III. 211), one could see his picture in 1685 among the statues of other saints and blessed who had lived in the monastery, with the title of "St Hogeri Archiep. Brem.". Bucelin calls him "saint'. The old church registers of the (former) Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen also call him "holy and chosen". They add that he watched over church discipline with great severity. HE WAS ARCHBISHOP UNTIL A.D. 915 He was Archbishop from 909–915. The last years of his life were marred by war and the plagues of war, especially the devastation of churches and monaste...