St. Ansfrid's in Amersfoort, Netherlands
Today is a special day. It’s Good Shepherd Sunday, which means there’s a lot of extra attention to vocations to the priesthood in a lot of Dutch parishes, but for Amersfoort it’s an extra special Sunday: on May 3, it’s the feast day of St. Ansfrid of Utrecht. Saints.SQPN.com has the following entry for St. Ansfrid:
Also known as Ansfridus of Utrecht and Ansfried of Utrecht. Memorial 3 May
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Count of Brabant. Married to Hilsondis; father of one daughter; after the girl’s birth, Ansfrid and Hilsondis, lived as brother and sister. Courtier and knight in the service of Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Saint Henry II. After many years of this life he realized a call to religious life, and in 974 he gave up his life as a soldier. In 992 he founded a convent at Thorn, Netherlands, which his wife and daughter entered; his daughter eventually became abbess.
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