ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of February WELCOME! SAINT REMBERT, BISHOP Saint Rembert [Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen, Germany] was a native of Flanders, near Bruges, and a monk in the neighbouring monastery of Turholt. St Anscharius [Ansgar] called him to his assistance in his missionary labours, and in his last sickness recommended him for his successor, saying: “Rembert is more worthy to be archbishop, than I to discharge the office of his deacon.” HE SOLD SACRED VESSELS TO REDEEM CAPTIVES After his death, in 865, St Rembert was unanimously chosen archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen, and superintended all the churches of Sweden, Denmark, and the Lower Germany, finishing the work of their conversion. He also began the conversion of the Sclavi and the Vandals, now called Brandenburgers. He sold the sacred vessels to redeem captives from the Normans; and gave the horse on which he was riding for the ransom of a virgin taken by the Scla...