The
Apostle of the Slavs and an archbishop. A German
monk of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Maximin in Tréves, he was consecrated a
bishop and sent to
Russia in 961. Princess Olga of that land had asked Emperor Otto I the Great to provide her with a missionary. The son of Princess Olga took her crown from her soon after
Adalbert arrived in Russia, and his mission companions were slain. He barely escaped with his own
life and made his way to Maniz, where he spent four years. He was then named
abbot of Weissenburg in Alsace and
bishop of
Magdeburg in Saxony. This was a
diocese created to provide missionary programs for the Slavs. There,
Adalbert was made
metropolitan of the Slavs and established the dioceses of Naumberg, Neissen, Merseberg, Brandenburg, Havelberg, and Posen. He also received two papal legates to assist him in his vast labor
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