Pope John XV
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Pope John XV was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from August 985 until his death. A Roman by birth, he was the first pope who canonized a saint. The origins of the investiture controv
Pope John XV is mentioned in the Dagome iudex, one of the earliest written records of the nation of Poland.
Ulrich of Augsburg
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Ulrich of Augsburg, sometimes spelled Uodalric or Odalrici, was Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the first saint to be canonised not by a local authority but by a pope.
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…at Magdeburg and became the preceptor to Emperor Otto III. At a Roman synod held in the Lateran on 31 January 993, John XV solemnly canonized Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, an event which the pope announced to the French and German bishops in a papal bull dated 3 February. This was the first time in history that a solemn…
Oil painting by Leonhard Beck
Left wing of an altar: St. Ulrich by the Master of Messkirch (1535 and 1540)
Votive tablet depicting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint Leopold, Ulrich and Andrew by Rueland Frueauf the Younger
Statue of S. Ulrich in a church in Gora Oljka (Slovenia)