Saturday, November 19, 2011

SAINT GAUDENTIUS OF GNESEN


Gaudentius of Gnesen

FEAST DAY Jan 5
 DIED 1004.
 Younger brother of St Adalbert of Prague and also a monk at the monastery of Sant' Alessio on the Aventine in Rome. He escaped the massacre in which his brother was martyred by the pagan Prussians and in 1000 became first Archbishop of Gnesen in Poland.appointed by Emperor Otto III in 1000. 

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