17. St. Adalbert:

St. Adalbert. (SW. Wojciech) (939-997). St. Adalbert was born of a noble family in Bohemia. He became Archbishop of Prague at a young age. The discord in Bohemia prompted him to leave Prague and to become a Benedictine monk in Rome. He left the Monastery to become a missionary. His objective was to convert pagans. He traveled to Poland and Hungary. When St. Adalbert, a holy man, and two companions attempted to evangelize in Prussia, they were regarded as spies and were murdered. Thus St. Adalbert became a martyr.