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Blessed Servatius Scharff

13 June (Premonstratensians)

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Joined the Premonstratensians at age 20. Canon of the Premonstratensian Steingadan monastery in Weilheim-Schongau, Bavaria, Germany. Priest. Had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. When Protestant Swedes invaded Bavaria during the Thirty Years War, Servatius took to the road, preaching in town after town, celebrating the Sacraments, and exhorting people not to abandon Catholicism.

Born

13 June 1603 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

13 June 1670 of natural causes

Additional Information

books
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

nettsteder i norsk
- Den katolske kirke

MLA Citation

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