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BRUNO (BRUN, BRUNS) OF See also:QUERFURT, See also:SAINT (c. 975-1009)  , See also:German missionary See also:bishop and See also:martyr, belonged to the See also:family of the lords of See also:Querfurt in See also:Saxony . He was educated at the famous See also:cathedral school at See also:Magdeburg, and at the See also:age of twenty was attached to the clerical See also:household of the See also:emperor See also:Otto III . In 996 he accompanied the emperor to See also:Rome, and there gave up his See also:post and entered the monastery of SS . Alexius and See also:Bonifacius on the Aventine, taking " in See also:religion " the name of Bonifacius . When the See also:news reached Rome of the martyrdom of See also:Adalbert, bishop of See also:Prague (997), See also:Bruno determined to take his See also:place, and in 1004, after being consecrated by the See also:pope as See also:archbishop of the eastern See also:heathen, he set out for See also:Germany to seek aid of the emperor See also:Henry II . The emperor, how-ever, being at See also:war with Boleslaus of See also:Poland, opposed his enter-prise, and he went first to the See also:court of St See also:Stephen of See also:Hungary, and, finding but slight encouragement there, to that of the See also:grand See also:prince See also:Vladimir at See also:Kiev . He made no effort to win over Vladimir to the See also:Roman obedience, but devoted himself to the See also:conversion of the See also:pagan Pechenegs who inhabited the See also:country between the See also:Don and the See also:Danube . In this he was so far successful that they made See also:peace with the grand prince and were for a while nominally Christians . In Ioo8 Bruno went to the court of Boleslaus, and, after a vain effort to persuade the emperor to end the war between Germans and Poles, determined at all hazards to proceed with his See also:mission to the Prussians . With eighteen companions he set out; but on the See also:borders of the See also:Russian (Lithuanian) country he and all his See also:company were massacred by the heathens (See also:February 14, 1009) . During his stay in Hungary (1004) Bruno wrote a See also:life of St Adalbert, the best of the three extant See also:biographies of the See also:saint (in See also:Pertz, Mon . Germ .

Hist . Scriptores, iv. pp . 577, 596-612), described by A . See also:

Potthast (Bibliotheca hist. med. aev.) as " in the highest degree attractive both in manner and See also:matter." A life of St Bruno was written by Dietmar, bishop of See also:Merseburg (976-1019) . This, with additions from the life of St Romuald, is published in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum (See also:June 19), vi . I, pp . 223-225 . See further U . See also:Chevalier, Repertoire See also:des See also:sources historiques, Bio-Bibliographie (See also:Paris, 1904), S.V .

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