The two ADALBERTS, who were Saints.
THE two Saints nam'd Adalbert not only illuminated Germany with the Light of their Doctrine, but also propagated that of the Gospel amongst the Barbarous Nations: The former, after * 1.1 having preach'd it to the People, who inhabit along the Coasts of the Baltick Sea, and having taken much pains in Converting the Sclavonians, was ordain'd the first Archbishop of Magdeburg in the year 968, and dyed in 981. The second, who was Bishop of Prague, in like manner preach'd the Gospel to the Bohemians, Polanders, and Hungarians. The later left his Bishoprick, by reason of the excessive Enormities of the People of Bohemia, and departing to Rome, there embrac'd the Mona∣stick Life in the Convent of S. Boniface. After having spent five years there, he return'd to Bohe∣mia, and pass'd from thence into Hungary; from whence he return'd the second time to Rome, and presided five years more in the same Monastery. He was also remov'd again by the Solicitation of the Archbishop of Mentz, who oblig'd Pope Gregory the Fifth to send him back. Boleslaus King of Bohemia having forbidden him to enter his Dominions, he went into Prussia, and from thence into Li∣thuania, where having suffer'd much in propagating the Christian Faith, he at last receiv'd the Crown of Martyrdom.