The life of St Wenceslas, King of the Czechs
He governed with unusual gentleness for his time, careful that judgment never fell on the innocent, and gave himself to building churches, among them a great one in Prague dedicated to Saint Vitus, whose relics he brought there along with those of his grandmother. He bought children who had been sold into slavery among his people and raised them free and baptized, and he had the Gospel of John rendered into the Czech tongue.
Resentful nobles turned his younger brother Boleslav against him, hoping to see Boleslav take the throne. Boleslav invited Vatslav to the dedication of a church and pressed him to linger an extra day. Though warned of danger, Vatslav would not suspect his own brother, and going to prayer the next morning he was struck down at the church door by Boleslav and his men, his body left where it fell. His mother recovered it and had it buried nearby. Boleslav later repented of the killing and brought his brother's relics to the church of Saint Vitus that Vatslav himself had raised, where they remain honored to this day.
