Saint Eric Oval Religious Medal "EXCLUSIVE"

Eric "IX" of Sweden, also called Eric the Lawgiver, Erik the Saint, Eric the Holy and in Sweden Sankt Erik meaning Saint Eric (d. May 18, 1160) was a Swedish king c.1155 1160. No historical records of Eric have survived, and all information about him is based on later legends that were aimed at having him established as a saint. Referring to Erik the Holy as King Eric IX is a later invention, counting backwards from Eric XIV (156068). He and his brother Charles IX (16041611) adopted numerals according to a fictitious history of Sweden. The amount of Swedish monarchs named Eric before Eric XIV (at least seven) is unknown, going back into prehistory, and none of them used numerals. It would be speculative to try to affix a mathematically accurate one to this king. Eric would later be made a saint whose feast day in the Roman Catholic Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is 18 May, although he was never formally canonized by the Catholic Church.