me gustaria saber si existe un Santo con el nombre de Oscar , ya que ese es mi nombre y quisiera conocer la imagen del santo, el dia que es su fiesta y conocer su biografia .

De antemano muchas gracias

Oscar Chávez Chávez Monterrey,México

-- oscar chavez chavez (cacx@yahoo.com), January 13, 2001

Answers

En los paises escandinovos de Europa y en el calendar universal de la Iglesia Catolica publicado en ingles, se llama "Saint Ansgar." Observamos su dia memorial con el de San Blas -- el 3 de febrero.

Un imagen del santo esta aqui.

San Oscar
Este gran misionero fue el evangelizador y primer obispo de los paises escandinavos, o sea: Dinamarca, Suecia y Noruega. Murio agotado de tanto misionar y de tanto trabajar por extender el reino de Cristo. Su muerte sucedio el 3 de febrero del ano 865.
Proposito: Pedire a Dios que me conceda su gran fortaleza para ser fiel creyente hasta el final de la vida. Si no pido esta gracia quizas no la reciba, pero si la pido muchas veces la voy a conseguir, porque Jesus prometio: "Todo el que pide, recibe".

Que Dios te bendiga, Oscar. Espero que puedes (o tienes un amigo que puedes) leer ingles! Si no, vamos a tratar de ayudarte aqui. John

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La biografia detallada de San Oscar en ingles (por su sucesor San Rembert) esta aqui: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html
Una biografia en ingles (mas corta) esta aqui: http://www.cin.org/books/dunney9.html
Varias notas breves en ingles ahora siguen:
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ANSGAR -- Also known as Anskar; Amschar; Scharies; Anschar
Memorial: 3 February
Meaning of the name: Spear of God.
Brief Profile: Nobility. Monk at Old Corbie Abbey in Picardy, and New Corbie in Westphalia. Benedictine. Studied under Saint Adelard and Saint Paschasius Radbert. Accompanied King Harold to Denmark when the exiled King returned home. Missionary to Denmark and Sweden. Founded first Christian church in Sweden c.832. Abbot of New Corbie. Archbishop of Hamburg. Legate to the Scandanavian countries. Established the first Christian school in Denmark, but was run out by pagans. Campaigned against slavery. Archbishop of Bremen. Converted Erik, King of Jutland. Great preacher. Miracle worker. Sadly, after his death most of his gains for the Church were lost to resurgent paganism.
Born: 801 @ Amiens, Picardy, France
Died: 3 February 865 @ Bremen
Patron saint of Denmark, Scandinavia, Sweden
Representation: wearing a fur pelisse; holding the Catheral of Hamburg
Words of the saint: "If I were worthy of such a favor from my God, I would ask that he grant me this one miracle: that by His grace He would make of me a good man."
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Born in Picardy, St. Anskar (c. 801-865) was the apostle to the Scandinavians. He was educated at Corbie, a Benedictine monastery, and taught at Corvey, a daughter house in Westphalia. Louis I the Pious had at that time allied himself with Harald of Denmark in a dynastic dispute on the condition that Harald and his country become Christian. When Louis sought a missionary, Archbishop Ebbo of Rheims and Abbot Wala of Corvey recommended Anskar. His mission began c. 826 in Schleswig and ended the following year with Harald's defeat. Bjorn of Sweden later permitted Anskar to preach in Sweden, where he established the first church in Scandinavia at Björnskö. Louis named Anskar first bishop of Hamburg in 831, and the following year, Gregory IV appointed him papal legate to the Scandinavians. The Swedish mission collapsed in 845, after Vikings destroyed Hamburg. Appointed Archbishop of Bremen in 851, Anskar renewed his missionary work and converted Haarik II of Sweden. Anskar did as much as he could to alleviate the harsh conditions of the Viking slave trade. He also founded hospitals. Nicholas I canonized Anskar shortly after his death.
Karen Rae Keck
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Ansgar (also known as Anskar, Anschar, Anscharius, Scharies)
Born near Amiens, Picardy, France in 801; died in Bremen, Germany on February 3, 865.
With the coming of the barbarian after the death of Charlemagne, darkness fell upon Europe. From the forests and fjords of the north, defying storm and danger, came a horde of pirate invaders, prowling round the undefended coasts, sweeping up the broad estuaries, and spreading havoc and fear. No town, however fair, no church, however sacred, and no community, however strong, was immune from their fury. Like a river of death the Vikings poured across Europe.
It's hard to believe that there would be an outbreak of missionary activity at such a time, but in Europe's darkest hour there were those who never faltered, and who set out to convert the pagan invader. Saint Ansgar was such a man. As a young boy of a noble family he was received at Corbie monastery in Picardy and educated under Saints Abelard and Paschasius Radbert. Once professed, he was transferred to New Corbie at Westphalia. He once said to a friend, "One miracle I would, if worthy, ask the Lord to grant me; and that is, that by His grace, he would make me a good man."
In France a call was made for a priest to go as a missionary to the Danes, and Ansgar, a young monk, volunteered. His friends tried to dissuade him, so dangerous was the mission. Nevertheless, when King Harold, who had become a Christian during his exile, returned to Denmark, Ansgar and another monk accompanied him. Equipped with tents and books, these two monks set out in 826 and founded a school in Denmark. Here Anskar's companion died, and he was obliged to move on to Sweden alone when his success in missionary work led King Bjoern to invite him to Sweden.
On the way, his boat was attacked by pirates and he lost all his possessions, arriving destitute at a small Swedish village. After this unpromising start, he succeeded in forming the nucleus of a church--the first Christian church in Sweden--and penetrated inland, confronting the heathen in their strongholds and converting the pagan chiefs.
Ansgar became the first archbishop of Hamburg, Germany, and abbot of New Corbie in Westphalia c. 831. The Pope Gregory IV appointed him legate to the Scandinavian countries and confided the Scandinavian souls to his care. He evangelized there for the next 14 years, building churches in Norway, Denmark, and northern Germany.
He saw his accomplishments obliterated when pagan Vikings invaded in 845, overran Scandinavia, and destroyed Hamburg. Thereafter, the natives reverted to paganism. Ansgar was then appointed first archbishop of Bremen around 848, but he was unable to establish himself there for a time and Pope Nicholas I united that see with Hamburg. Nicholas also gave him jurisdiction over Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Ansgar returned to Denmark and Sweden in 854 to resume spreading the Gospel. When he returned to Denmark he saw the church and school he had built there destroyed before his eyes by an invading army. His heart almost broke as he saw his work reduced to ashes. "The Lord gave," he said, "and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord." With a handful of followers he wandered through his ruined diocese, but it was a grim and weary time. "Be assured, my dear brother," said the primate of France, who had commissioned him to this task, "that what we have striven to accomplish for the glory of Christ will yet, by God's help, bring forth fruit." Heartened by these words, and with unfailing courage, Anskar pursued his Swedish mission. Though he had but four churches left and could find no one willing to go in his place, he established new outposts and consolidated his work.
King Olaf had cast a die to decide whether to allow the entrance of Christians, an action that Ansgar mourned as callous and unbefitting. He was encouraged, however, by a council of chiefs at which an aged man spoke in his defense. "Those who bring to us this new faith," he said, "by their voyage here have been exposed to many dangers. We see our own deities failing us. Why reject a religion thus brought to our very doors? Why not permit the servants of God to remain among us? Listen to my counsel and reject not what is plainly for our advantage." As a result, Ansgar was free to preach the Christian faith, and though he met with many setbacks, he continued his work until he died at he age of 64 and was buried at Bremen. He was a great missionary, an indefatigable, outstanding preacher, renowned for his austerity, holiness of life, and charity to the poor. He built schools and was a great liberator of slaves captured by the Vikings. He converted King Erik of the Jutland and was called the 'Apostle of the North.' Yet Sweden reverted completely to paganism shortly after Ansgar's death.
Ansgar often wore a hairshirt, lived on bread and water when his health permitted it, and added short personal prayers to each Psalm in his psalter, thus contributing to a form of devotion that soon became widespread. Miracles were said to have been worked by him. After Ansgar's death, the work he had begun came to a stop and the area reverted to paganism. Christianity did not begin to make headway in Scandinavia until two centuries later with the work of Saint Sigfrid and others. A life was written about Ansgar by his fellow missionary in Scandinavia, Saint Rembert. In art Ansgar shown with converted Danes near him, wearing a fur pelisse. He may sometimes be shown otherwise in a boat with King Harold and companions or in a cope and miter, holding Hamburg Cathedral. Saint Ansgar is the patron of Denmark, Germany, and Iceland. He is venerated in Old Corbie (Picardy) and New Corbie (Saxony) as well as in Scandinavia.
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St. Anschar or Ansgarius
Called the Apostle of the North, was b. in Picardy, 8 September, 801; d. 5 February, 865. He became a Benedictine of Corbie, whence lie passed into Westphalia. With Harold, the newly baptized King of Denmark who had been expelled from his kingdom but was now returning, he and Autbert went to preach the Faith in that country where Ebbo, the Archbishop of Reims, had already laboured but without much success. Anschar founded a school at Schleswig, but the intemperate zeal of Harold provoked another storm which ended in a second expulsion, and the consequent return of the missionaries. In the company of the ambassadors of Louis le Débonnaire, he then entered Sweden, and preached the Gospel there. Although the embassy had been attacked on its way and had apparently abandoned its mission, Anschar succeeded in entering the country, and was favourably received by the king, who permitted him to preach. The chief of the royal counsellors, Herigar, was converted, and built the first church of Sweden. Anschar remained there a year and a half, and returning was made bishop of the new see of Hamburg, and appointed by Gregory IV legate of the northern nations. He revived also the abbey of Turholt in Flanders, and established a school there. In 845 Eric, the King of Jutland, appeared off Hamburg with a fleet of 600 vessels, and destroyed the city. Anschar was for some time a fugitive and was deprived also of his Flemish possessions by Charles the Bald, but on the accession of Louis the German was restored to his see. The bishopric of Bremen which had been the See of Leudric, his enemy, was at the same time united to Hamburg, but though the arrangement was made in 847 it was not confirmed by the Pope until 857, and Anschar was made the first archbishop. Meantime he made frequent excursions to Denmark, ostensibly in the quality of envoy of King Louis. He built a church at Schleswig and afterwards went as Danish ambassador to his old mission of Sweden. King Olaf regarded him with favour, but the question of permitting him to preach was submitted to the oracles, which are said to have given a favourable answer. It was probably due to the prayers of the saint. A church was built and a priest established there. In 854 we find him back in Denmark, where he succeeded in changing the enmity of King Eric into friendship. Eric had expelled the priests who had been left at Schleswig, but at the request of Anschar recalled them. The saint built another church in Jutland and introduced the use of bells, which the pagans regarded as instruments of magic, he also induced the king to mitigate the horrors of the slave-trade. He was eminent for his piety, mortification, and observance of the monastic rule, he built hospitals, ransomed captives, sent immense alms abroad, and regretted only that he had not been found worthy of martyrdom. Though he wrote several works, very little of them remains. He had added devotional phrases to the psalms, which, according to Fabricius, in his Latin Library of the Middle Ages, are an illustrious monument ,to the piety of the holy prelate. He had also compiled a life of St. Willehad, first Bishop of Bremen, and the preface which he wrote was considered a masterpiece for that age. It is published by Fabricius among the works of the historians of Hamburg. Some letters of his are also extant. He is known in Germany as St. Scharies and such is the title of his collegiate church in Bremen. Another in Hamburg under the same title was converted into an orphan asylum by the Lutherans. All of his success as a missionary he ascribed to the piety of Louis le Débonnaire and the apostolic zeal of his predecessor in the work, Ebbo, Archbishop of Reims, who, however, as a matter of fact, had failed.
T.J. CAMPBELL
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-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), January 13, 2001.

Quisiera ver la posiblidad de que em enviaran una imagen de San Ernesto y su biografia si es posible, de antemano muchas gracias.

-- Ernesto (sebaot@hotmail.com), February 28, 2001.

Jmj

Querido Ernesto,
Sobre San Ernesto, se sabe muy poco. [Enrique o Eugene, puede ayudarnos?]
From an Internet site about saints ... "Ernest was the Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Zwiefalten in Germany. He went on the Crusades, preached in Arabia and Persia, and was captured by the Moors. He was tortured to death in Mecca. His feast day is November 7th."
There are no pictures of St. Ernest on the Internet. You may be able to obtain one by writing to, or phoning ...
SAINT ERNEST CATHOLIC CHURCH ... (843)-672-5607
EVANS MILL ROAD
PAGELAND, SOUTH CAROLINA 29728

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), March 01, 2001.

alalaverga

-- locochoin (lufregogo@jkhfadhgdsj.com), September 03, 2002.