Radim Gaudentius ( Czech : svatý Radim , Polish : Radzim Gaudenty ; c. 970 – c. 1020) was Archbishop of Gniezno and the first Polish archbishop.
2-562: Radzim may refer to the following places in Poland: Or to Radim Gaudentius , the first Archbishop of Gniezno. Radim Gaudentius Radim was an illegitimate son of Bohemian nobleman Slavník , and thus the half-brother of Adalbert of Prague . In 989, the two journeyed to Rome where they joined the Benedictine monastery of Sts. Boniface and Alexius on the Aventine , with Radim adopting
4-475: The name Gaudencius or Gaudentius. He accompanied Adalbert on his fatal journey to Prussia in 997. Surviving the mission fatal to his half-brother, back in Rome he related the events of the journey to Abbot John Canaparius , who wrote a biography of Adalbert, and worked to promote his canonization . Historians are not certain with regards to his date of death, suggesting a range of 1006 to 1022. His date of birth
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