budapest02 Bishop Gellért Memorial Bishop Gellért was born to a noble family in Venice around 980 AD. As a child, he became very ill and his parents took him to a Benedictine Monastery. His parents vowed to dedicate their son to God if he were saved. The boy recovered and his parents left him at the monastery. Later, he was made Bishop of the Church in Csanád by King Stephan I of Hungary. He was also asked by the king to help bring Christianity to the pagan Magyars (the Eastern tribes from which Hungarians are descendants) Unfortunately, a couple of the Magyar leaders had other ideas. As legend has it, they first stoned the bishop then put him in a barrel with nails driven into it and rolled him down the hill that now bears his name.