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Adalbert and Prague
Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.
In 980 Adalbert finished his studies at Magdeburg school and returned to Prague, where he became a priest.
In 982, still not yet thirty years old, Adalbert became the Bishop of Prague .< ref >“ Saint Adalbert of Prague ”.
While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.
Attempts to conquer Prussian land began in 997, when Bolesław I Chrobry, at the urging of the Pope, sent a contingent of soldiers and a missionary ( Adalbert of Prague ) to the pagan Prussians on a crusade of conquest and conversion.
An equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslaus and other patrons of Bohemia ( St. Adalbert, St. Ludmila, St. Prokop and St. Agnes of Bohemia ) is located on Wenceslaus Square in Prague.
Otto III also carried back parts of the body of Bishop Adalbert of Prague, which he placed in a splendid new church he had built on the Tiber Island in Rome.
Stephen, who was baptized by Bishop Adalbert of Prague, married Gisela, the daughter of Bavarian Duke Henry II and distant niece of Otto III.
In 996, Duke Bolesław I of Poland sent Adalbert, the longtime Bishop of Prague, to Christianize the Prussian people.
Otto III desired to pray at the grave of Adalbert, the former Bishop of Prague, who had been a friend of the Emperor.
Known as Adalbert of Prague upon the death of Adalbert of Magdeburg in 981, Adalbert's mission took place in 997 and ended in the missionary's martyrdom at the hands of the pagan Prussians, which occurred in April 997 on the Baltic Sea coast in the vicinity of Truso ( a medieval emporia near modern city of Elbląg ).
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