January 20th

Blessed Henry, Bishop and Martyr

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · Finland · d. c. 1156

In Finland, Saint Henry, bishop and martyr, who, born in England, took up the governance of the Church of Uppsala and devoted every effort to evangelizing the Finns. At length he was cruelly slain by a murderer whom he had sought to correct according to ecclesiastical discipline.

Latin Original

In Fínnia, sancti Henríci, epíscopi et mártyris, qui, in Anglia natus, Upsaliénsem Ecclésiam suscépit regéndam omni stádio 1n Finnos evangelizándos incámbens; crudéliter tandem ab homicída trucidátus est, quem iuxta ecclesiásticam disciplinam corrígere conátus erat.