Adalberto Magdeburg

910 (age 71)

Lorraine, France

He was later canonised and his liturgical feast day was assigned as 20 June. He was a German monk at the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Maximinus in Trier, Germany. He was consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop and in 961 was sent to Kievan Rus. Her son, Svyatoslav opposed her and stole her crown as soon as Adalbert arrived in Kievan Rus. Adalbert"s missionary companions were slain and Adalbert barely escaped. Upon escaping Kievan Rus, Adalbert traveled to Mainz, Germany, where he became the Abbot of Wissembourg in Alsace. There he worked to improve the education of the monks. He later became the first Archbishop of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in contemporary Germany. The Archepiscopacies of Hamburg and Bremen had been established with the intention that they would serve as bases for missions in northern and eastern Europe. The Archdiocese of Magdeburg was designated to provide missionaries to the eastern European Slavs. Adalbert also established dioceses for Naumburg. Meissen; Merseburg; Brandenburg. Havelberg. And Poznań, Poland. He died on 20 June 981 in Zscherben (contemporarily in (former) Geusa, in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). A student of Adalbert for some years named Vojtěch, who at his Confirmation took the very name of his tutor, went on from Adalbert"s tutelage to successfully evangelize many Slavic peoples, receive the crown of martyrdom in Prussia, and was canonized as Saint Adalbert of Prague. Evidently Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg transmitted something of his wisdom, zeal, and own mission to his student, the younger Saint Adalbert (of Prague).

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Adalbert was born c. 910, possibly in Alsace or Lorraine, France.

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He was later canonised and his liturgical feast day was assigned as 20 June. He was a German monk at the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Maximinus in Trier, Germany. He was consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop and in 961 was sent to Kievan Rus.

Her son, Svyatoslav opposed her and stole her crown as soon as Adalbert arrived in Kievan Rus.

Adalbert"s missionary companions were slain and Adalbert barely escaped. Upon escaping Kievan Rus, Adalbert traveled to Mainz, Germany, where he became the Abbot of Wissembourg in Alsace.

There he worked to improve the education of the monks. He later became the first Archbishop of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in contemporary Germany.

The Archepiscopacies of Hamburg and Bremen had been established with the intention that they would serve as bases for missions in northern and eastern Europe.

The Archdiocese of Magdeburg was designated to provide missionaries to the eastern European Slavs. Adalbert also established dioceses for Naumburg. Meissen; Merseburg; Brandenburg.

Havelberg.

And Poznań, Poland. He died on 20 June 981 in Zscherben (contemporarily in (former) Geusa, in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). A student of Adalbert for some years named Vojtěch, who at his Confirmation took the very name of his tutor, went on from Adalbert"s tutelage to successfully evangelize many Slavic peoples, receive the crown of martyrdom in Prussia, and was canonized as Saint Adalbert of Prague.

Evidently Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg transmitted something of his wisdom, zeal, and own mission to his student, the younger Saint Adalbert (of Prague).

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