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Saint Gottschalk

Saint Gottschalk

Patron saint of lost vocations

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Join me today as we meet a saint who gave up everything to avenge his father, only to discover that he had lost his vocation.

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Knight at the Crossroads, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1882

Name: Gottschalk

Life: c. 1000 - 1066 AD

Status: Saint

Feast: June 7

By 1147 AD the political order that Gottschalk had worked to build was broken beyond repair. In the Wendish Crusade …

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