Vojtěch«Voitecus / Wojciech / Adalbertus / Adalbert»
(c. 956–997)
Bishop (of Prague†), Martyr
Place of birth:Duchy of Bohemia††
Place of death:Old Prussia†††
Feastday
23 April
Canonisation
08/04/0999 by Silvester II
Patronage
Patron of:Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest††††; Archdiocese of Prague†††††; Bohemia††††††; Czech Republic†††††††; Hungary††††††††; Kaliningrad Oblast†††††††††; Poland††††††††††; Prussia†††††††††††
Patron of:students of Polish literature
†Praha
††České knížectví / Ducatus Bohemiæ / Herzogtum Böhmen [c. 870–1198]
†††Wara-Prūsa / Stare Prusy / Altpreußen / Vetus Pruthenia / Vetus Prussia / Vetus Borussia [10th cent.–1230]
††††Archidioecesis Strigoniensis-Budapestinensis / Esztergom–Budapesti Főegyházmegye
†††††Archidioecesis Pragensis / Arcibiskupství pražské
††††††Čechy / Böhmen / Čěska / Czechy / Boiohaemum / Βοημία
†††††††Češka / Česká republika [1993– ]
††††††††Magyarország
†††††††††Калининградская область / Königsberg / Tvanksta
††††††††††Polska
†††††††††††Preußen / Prūsija / Prūsija / Prūsa
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia