Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2013
Abstract
The author researches with hagiographical evidence the common opinion, that the Bishop of Prague, St. Adalbert, founded after his roman "exile" the first monastery for men in Břevnov, Bohemia, in 993, with the help of the monks of St.
Boniface and Alexius on the Aventine hill in Rome. There are no relevant proofs of a founding of the monastery Břevnov by Adalbert and his cononization with monks from the monastery on the Aventine St.
Boniface and Alexius. The silence of contemporary biographers of Adalbert in the Vita s.
Adalberti prior and Bruno of Querfurt's Vita s. Adalberti altera proof that neither Adalbert nor the monastery on the Aventine had anything to do with the founding of Břevnov.