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Henry

bishop of Finland

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 19 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1100
Died
1157
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Henry (Finnish: Henrik; Swedish: Henrik; Latin: Henricus; died c. 20 January 1156) was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could only be established in 1164 after the civil war, and Henry would have been sent to organize the Church in Finland, where Christians had already existed for two centuries.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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