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[Facts] Re: Sunniva - Norwegian? Fridolin - German?

by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

11/2/2007, 8:26 AM

St. Fridolin was born in Ireland, but he did the missionary work that earned him his sainthood in Germany. I would suppose that Fridolin is a "Germanization" of his original Irish name, whatever that might have been, so that the Germans he was working with could relate to him better.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303c.htm

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