Christian feast day: Bruno of Querfurt

Bruno of Querfurt

10th/11th-century monk, bishop, missionary and martyr

Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam.,, also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop, Camaldolese monk and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. He is also called the second "Apostle of the Prussians".