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2 unusual facts about St. Adalbert


St. Adalbert's Basilica, Buffalo

In February 2008 the Vatican's highest Canonical Court upheld Bishop Edward Kmiec's decision to close the church.

St. Adalbert's Church

St. Adalbert's Church, Königsberg, former Roman Catholic Church in Königsberg, Germany, now used as a laboratory in Kaliningrad, Russia


Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia

In 1039 he invaded Little and Great Poland, captured Poznań and sacked Gniezno, bringing the relics of St. Adalbert, Radim Gaudentius and the Five Brothers back with him.

Bruno of Querfurt

Bruno elected to gracefully exit the region after he first finished his book, the famous "Life of St. Adalbert," a literary memorial of much worth giving a history of the (relatively recent) conversion of the Hungarians.

Jozef Mazur

His paintings can also be found in St. Adalbert's Basilica, Blessed Trinity, the Polish National Cathedral Holy Mother of the Rosary, St. John Gualbert's, and Villa Maria Academy.


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Bruno of Querfurt

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.