St. Adalbert

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]

Bishop of Prague, who, driven from Bohemia, essayed to preach the gospel in heathen Prussia, where the priests fell upon him, and "struck him with a death-stroke on the head," April 27,997, on the anniversary of which day a festival is held in his honour.

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