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Died 885. The Irish monk and evangelist Hiero was martyred in the Netherlands (Benedictines, Encyclopaedia).

In art, Saint Hiero is portrayed as a monk with a hawk and sword (Roeder). He is invoked to find lost articles (Roeder).

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St. Hiero of Scotland (d. 856) Hero was probably a Scot. He worked in Frisia as a missionary in the ninth century, where he was killed during a Viking raid. His bones were discovered by miraculous means in the tenth century, as a result of which he is the patron saint for finding lost objects.


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