05 Works, Today, June 20th, is Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg’s day, his story in Paintings #171

Henry Zaidan
1 min readJun 20, 2020

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Unknown Painter
Adalbert of Magdeburg, first Archbishop of Magdeburg

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Adalbert of Magdeburg (c. 910–20 June 981), known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg (from 968) and a successful missionary to the Polabian Slavs to the east of Germany. He was later canonised and his liturgical feast day was assigned as 20 June…

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Henry Zaidan
Henry Zaidan

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