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St. David of Sweden

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Feastday: July 15
Death: 1080

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Benedictine bishop, born in England and sometimes called David of Muntorp. He went as a missionary to Sweden to aid Bishop Sigfrid of Vaxio, who had lost his three missionary nephews. Sigfrid sent David to Vastmanland, and there David founded a monastery at Munktorp or Monkentorp. He ruled that mon­astery as abbot until becoming the bishop of Vasteras.

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