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Saint Ernest

German saint

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Feast: 7 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1116
Died
1148
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Ernest (died 1148) was the abbot of the Benedictine Zwiefalten Abbey at Zwiefalten, Germany from 1141 to 1146. He participated in the Second Crusade fought by Christians between 1146 and 1149 to defend the Holy Land following the Turkish atabeg Zengi's capture of the strategically important city of Edessa in 1144.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q3732351 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Saint Ernest (CC BY-SA)

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