Buldus

Buldus (in Hungarian Bőd) was a bishop and martyr in Hungary, killed on 24 September 1046 on Gellért Hill in Buda. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, which remembers him on 24 September.

According to Hungarian chronicles and legends, he came with the bishops Gerard of Csanád, Bystrík of Nitra and Beneta toward Pest, to meet Prince Andrew of Hungary. At Buda they were attacked by insurgents. Buldus was killed with stones and lance thrusts, as was Gerard, while Bystrík and Beneta at first managed to flee to the other bank of the Danube.

In 1083 Buldus was canonized, together with Gerard and Bystrík, in the Western Church, and in 1093 the synod of Szabolcs fixed their remembrance on 24 September. His diocese is not known: Eger, Veszprém, Alba Iulia in Transylvania or Bihar are supposed. The presumed place of his tomb is in the ruins of the castle of Eger.

He died in 1046, before the separation of the Churches in 1054; the canonization of 1083 was made in the West. No Orthodox synodal canonization is known.