10th/11th-century monk, bishop, missionary and martyr
Saint
Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam.
A medieval fresco depicting St Bruno's death
Bishop and Martyr; Second Apostle of the Prussians
Born
c. 974 Querfurt, Holy Roman Empire (now in Saxony-Anhalt)
Died
14 February 1009 Kievan Rus
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church (Camaldolese Order)
Feast
15 October
Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam., (c. 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop, Camaldolese monk and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. He is also called the second "Apostle of the Prussians".
BrunoofQuerfurt, O.S.B. Cam., (c. 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop, Camaldolese monk and...
Weißenschirmbach and Ziegelroda. Querfurt is known as the birthplace of Saint BrunoofQuerfurt. For some time, Querfurt was the capital of a principality covering...
German Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia BrunoofQuerfurt (c. 974–1009), German missionary bishop and martyr Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) (c. 1005–1045)...
ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7. "Life of the Five Brethren by BrunoofQuerfurt (Translated by Marina Miladinov)" (2013). In Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe...
Christian mission—even after the coronation of King Stephen I of Hungary in 1000/1001. In 1003, BrunoofQuerfurt tried to convert the Black Hungarians; then...
born Brunoof Carinthia BrunoofQuerfurt (c. 974–1009), Christian missionary bishop, martyr and saint Brunoof Augsburg (c. 992–1029), Bishop of Augsburg...
Another famous biographer of Adalbert was BrunoofQuerfurt who wrote a hagiography of him in 1001–4. Notably, the Přemyslid rulers of Bohemia initially refused...
the Pope. The Chronicon of Adémar de Chabannes and the life of St. Romuald (by Pietro Damiani) document how St. BrunoofQuerfurt was sent to Rus' (Latin:...
Toirdelbach Ua Briain, king of Munster (d. 1086) Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sultan of Morocco (d. 1106) February 14 – BrunoofQuerfurt, German missionary bishop...
1009, relates to Chalcedonian missionaries led by BrunoofQuerfurt, who baptised several rulers of the Yotvingians, a nearby Baltic tribe. However, Lithuanians...
opposition to Emperor Otto III. John XVII approved of a mission led by BrunoofQuerfurt to Eastern Europe. Bruno also requested John XVII to authorize his companion...
VII as the 135th pope of the Catholic Church. An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach (Germany). BrunoofQuerfurt, German missionary bishop...
receiving word of Adalbert's death and had thereupon planned the upcoming events. Another famous biographer of Adalbert was St. BrunoofQuerfurt who wrote...
Prussians, Adalbert's successor, BrunoofQuerfurt, was also killed in 1009. Bolesław I continued his conquests of surrounding lands and in 1015 he devastated...
Duke of Bohemia, 935 King Edward the Martyr, 979. Adalbert of Prague, 997 by Old Prussians BrunoofQuerfurt, 1009 Jovan Vladimir, 1014 Olaf II of Norway...
The Diary of Lady Murasaki. 42nd Birthday of Fujiwara no Michinaga, father-in-law of the emperor, is celebrated. Autumn – BrunoofQuerfurt, a missionary...
his book De Administrando Imperio as megas Turkias arkhon, while BrunoofQuerfurt referred to Géza in his Sancti Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris...
Gebhard was the son of Count Bernhard of Supplinburg (d. about 1069) and his wife Ida ofQuerfurt, a niece of Saint BrunoofQuerfurt. About 1052 he succeeded...
Nitra in Slovakia). The Christianisation of the population required the application of violence. BrunoofQuerfurt witnessed how Christian soldiers blinded...
man, and who had been governing everything owned by her husband" (BrunoofQuerfurt: Sancti Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera). "Christian...
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