#St. Adalbert

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Opole, Poland - cast metal / iron figures of a dwell near Our Lady of Sorrows church. St. Adalbert Brunnen / studnia św. Wojciecha.

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William Koechling, Mary and the Bullet Hole, St. Adalbert Church, Chicago, 2016

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possibly controversial opinion but i have absolutely no sympathy for some martyrs, especially saint Boniface and święty Wojciech/Wojtech/Adalbertus. because there is nothing more self righteous and screaming that you have a superiority complex than coming without an invitation to people who just live their life the same way as their ancestors used to and then destroying their sacred places, cutting tdown their their holy trees and trying to convert them to your religion “for their own good”. you spit on things that are divine in their eyes so don’t be surprised when they give you an adequate treatment

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Julia Morgan

St. Vitus Cathedral

(The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert)

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

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St. Adalbert's Church, Amalienau, Königsberg, Prussia (Kaliningrad, Russia)

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Statue of St. Adalbert

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One Selkie. Two strangers. Three murders.

The small town of St. Adalbert Sur Mer is hiding a dark secret.

Three times during the summer, the lifeless body of a Selkie was dumped into the river. Naked, and with a missing pelt.

Louison is sent by her clan to investigate these murders and catch the killer, but her mission derails when she meets two charming strangers whom everyone in town seems to be falling in love with - including herself. Torn between her rising attraction towards Gabrielle and Adrien and keeping the secret of her origins, Louison must dodge tourists, deadly poachers and wildlife protection agents in a wild quest to find her sibling’s murderer - before he kills again.

Skin Deep is a queer polyamorous story where everyone is hiding something and nothing is as simple as it seems. 

Now available for pre-orders in both ENGLISH and FRENCH

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Stanislaw Fabijański (1865-1947) - St. Adalbert Church on the main square in Krakow

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St George and the Saints for 23 April

St George (died c 303) Martyr Soldier. St George is commemorated and remembered as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military Saints, he is immortalised in the myth of Saint George and the Dragon.St George!https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/saint-of-the-day-23-april-st-george-died-c-303-martyr/ St Adalbert of Prague (c 957-997) Bishop and Martyr, Missionary,…

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SAINT OF THE DAY (August 16)

On August 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of King Saint Stephen of Hungary, the monarch who led his country to embrace the Christian faith during the 11th century.

Before the future saint's birth in 975, his mother, the Duchess Sarolt, is said to have received a vision in which the original Saint Stephen – the Church's first martyr – appeared telling her she would bear a son who would evangelize their land.

Together with her husband, the Hungarian Duke Geza, Sarolt is believed to have been converted and baptized by the bishop Saint Adalbert of Prague.

The same saint baptized their son Vaik in 985, giving him the name of Stephen.

Geza had desired to convert the Hungarians to the Catholic faith, a passion shared by Stephen once he reached adulthood and succeeded him in power.

After conclusively defeating an alliance of rival pagan nobility, he used their acquired wealth to build a monastery and invited clergy to convert the people.

Stephen established laws favoring Christianity over paganism and sent an emissary to Rome with a request for the Pope to proclaim him as king.

Pope Sylvester II accepted the request, sending him a crown and a gold processional cross, while also giving Stephen certain religious privileges.

He showed great diligence as king, while devoting the rest of his time to his religious duties – including charity toward the poor and sick, as well as the worship of God – and to his household.

Gisela, Stephen's wife, was the sister of the ruler later canonized as the Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II.

Greatly devoted to the Virgin Mary, Stephen had several churches built in her honor both in Hungary and outside the kingdom.

Her intercession is credited with preventing a war between Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire under Conrad II, and stopping an assassination plot against Stephen himself.

The Hungarian king also established a monastery in Jerusalem and set up institutions to aid pilgrims in other major cities.

Stephen counted saints among his friends and correspondents, and fulfilled the Pope's charge to use his royal authority for the good of the Church.

Suffering came to the king, however, when only one of his children survived to adulthood.

Stephen's only living son Emeric received a strong Catholic upbringing and was expected to succeed his father.

But Emeric died before Stephen after a hunting accident in 1031.

Emeric was later canonized as a saint in his own right, and Stephen eventually came to rejoice that his son had been permitted to enter God's presence before him.

The king's final years, however, were marked by illness as well as a succession dispute among his relatives.

In 1038, on the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stephen delivered his final words to leaders of the Church and state, telling them to protect and spread the Catholic faith.

To the Virgin Mary, the king directed one of his final prayers:

“To thee, O Queen of heaven, and to thy guardianship, I commend the holy Church, all the bishops and the clergy, the whole kingdom, its rulers and inhabitants; but before all, I commend my soul to thy care.”

Stephen of Hungary died on 15 August 1038.

He was buried alongside his son St. Emeric, and the two were canonized together in 1083.

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Hl. Adalbert von Magdeburg

Gefeiert Am 20. Juni

Hl. Adalbert Mönch, Glaubensbote bei den Sorben, erster Erzbischof von Magdeburg * um 910 in Lothringen in Frankreich † 20. Juni 981 in Zscherben bei Halle in Sachsen-Anhalt

Adalbert war zunächst Schreiber beim Kölner Erzbischof, dann Kanzleinotar beim späteren deutschen Kaiser Otto I. 959 wurde er Mönch in in St. Maximin in Trier, einem der berühmtesten Klöster Deutschlands. Auf Bitten der russischen Großfürstin Olga wurde er 961 als Missionsbischof nach Kiew in Russland geschickt, aber der Auftrag misslang, Adalbert entrann nur knapp dem Tod. 968 wurde er von Otto I. zum ersten Bischof des neu gegründeten Bistums Magdeburg eingesetzt, wo er sich besonders der Mission unter den Sorben widmete.

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William Koechling, Mary and the Bullet Hole, St. Adalbert Church, Chicago, 2016

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Today we also celebrate the Holy Empress Adelaide of Rome. Saint Adelaide, one of the conspicuous characters in the struggle of Otho the great to obtain the imperial crown from the Roman Pontiffs. She was the daughter of Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, who was at war with Hugh of Provence for the crown of Italy. The rivals concluded a peace in 933, by which it was stipulated that Adelaide should marry Hugh's son Lothaire. The marriage took place, however, only fourteen years later; Adelaide's mother meantime married Hugh. By this time Berengarius, the Marquis of Ivrea, came upon the scene, claiming the Kingdom of Italy for himself. He forced Hugh to abdicate in favour of Lothaire, and is supposed to have afterwards put Lothaire to death by poison. He then proposed to unite Adelaide in marriage with his son, Adalbert. Refusing the offer, Adelaide was kept in almost solitary captivity, in the Castle of Garda, on the lake of that name. From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake. Soon, however, the Duke of Canossa, Alberto Uzzo, who had been advised of the rescue, arrived and carried her off to his castle. While this was going on the Italian nobles, weary of Berengarius, had invited Otho to invade Italy. He met with little resistance, and betook himself to Canossa where he met Adelaide, and married her on Christmas day, 951, at Pavia. This marriage gave Otho no new rights over Italy, but the enthusiasm of the people for Adelaide, whose career had been so romantic, appealed to them and made Otho's work of subjugating the peninsula easy. In Germany she was the idol of her subjects, while her husband lived. During the reign of her son Otho II, her troubles began, chiefly owing to the jealousy of her daughter-in-law, Theophano, and possibly also because of her excessive liberality in her works of charity. It resulted in her withdrawing from court and fixing her residence at Pavia, but a reconciliation was effected by the Abbot of Cluny, St. Mayeul. (Cont.) (at Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmNh0w9PTnP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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St. Vitus Cathedral is the largest and the most important temple in Prague. Apart from religious services, coronations of Czech kings and queens also took place here. The cathedral is a place of burial of several patron saints, sovereigns, noblemen and archbishops.

St. Vitus Cathedral

(The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert)

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

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The Primate's Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gniezno (also known as the Gniezno Archcathedral or the Sanctuary of St. Adalbert) - a Gothic archcathedral church located on the Lech Hill in Gniezno. 💙☁️✨🤍

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St. Adalbert’s Church in Chicago