holidays

Christian feast day: Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

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Mikael Agricola (Lutheran) from April 10, null

Mikael Agricola

16th-century Finnish clergyman and the official founder of literary Finnish

Mikael Agricola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary…
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Calendar of saints (Lutheran)

Religious calendar

The Lutheran Church has, from the time of the Reformation, continued the remembrance of saints. The theological basis for this remembrance is understood as being connected to the words of the Epistle to the Hebrews 12:1. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the…
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