Saint Ernest
German saint
Feast: 7 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Ernest (died 1148) was the abbot of the Benedictine Zwiefalten Abbey at Zwiefalten, Germany from 1141 to 1146. He participated in the Second Crusade fought by Christians between 1146 and 1149 to defend the Holy Land following the Turkish atabeg Zengi's capture of the strategically important city of Edessa in 1144.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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- Santi, beati e testimoni - Sant'Ernesto di Zwiefalten — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: Sant'Ernesto di Zwiefalten - Abate.
- Wikidata Q3732351 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Ernest (CC BY-SA)
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