The bishops Gellért (Italian: Gerard), Besztrik, Buldi, and Beneta gather to greet them András and Levente's men as they move towards Pest.

The bishops are attacked in Pest on on September 24 by Vata's mob, who begin stoning the bishops; Buldi is stoned to death.

Gellért repeatedly makes the sign of the cross as the pagans throw rocks at him, which further infuriates the pagans.

Gellért is allegedly taken up Kelenhegy hill, where he is put into a cart and pushed off a cliff, onto the banks of the Danube; then, found still alive at the bottom, he is beaten to death.

Other unverified tales report him as being put in a spiked barrel and rolled down the hill during a mass revolt of pagans.

Besztrik and Beneta manage to flee across the river, where Besztrik is injured by pagans before the pair can be rescued by András and Levente; only Beneta survives.

Gellért will later be canonized for his martyrdom and the hill from which he had been thrown will be renamed Gellért Hill.

The hill, in modern central Budapest, has a monument on the cliff where Gellért, today a patron saint of Hungary, was killed.