Editing Bruno of Querfurt (section)

=== Mission to Prussia and death ===
[[File:Polska 992 - 1025.png|thumb|[[Poland]] and [[Prussia (Baltic)|Prussia]] during the reign of [[Boleslaus I of Poland|Bolesław the Brave]]]]
In the autumn or at the end of 1008 Bruno and eighteen companions set out to found a mission among the [[Old Prussians]]; they succeeded in converting Netimer and then travelled to the east, heading very likely towards [[Yotvingians|Yotvingia]].

Bruno met opposition in his efforts to evangelize the borderland and when he persisted in disregarding their warnings he was [[decapitation|beheaded]] on 14 February (or 9 or 14 March) 1009, and most of his eighteen companions were hanged by Zebeden, brother of Netimer.<ref name=Butler/> Duke [[Boleslaus the Brave]] bought the bodies and brought them to Poland. (It was supposed that they were laid to rest in [[Przemyśl]], where some historians place Bruno's diocese; such localization of Bruno's burial place is hardly probable because Przemyśl then belonged to [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] Kievan Rus through 1018.) The ''Annals of Magdeburg,'' [[Thietmar of Merseburg]]'s ''Chronicle'', the ''[[Annals of Quedlinburg]]'', various works of [[Magdeburg]] Bishops, and many other written sources of 11th–15th centuries record this story.

Soon after his death, Bruno and his companions were venerated as martyrs and Bruno was soon after [[canonized]]. It was said that [[Braunsberg]] was named after Bruno.<ref name=Meier/>