Patron of Day: St. Hedvig
The Commissioning of WYD Cracow 2016 Pilgrims The Feast of Saint Jacob the Apostle Patron of Day: St. Hedvig St. Hedwig of Silesia, The Princess Jadwiga of Andechs-Meran was born between 1174 and 1178 in Bavaria. She was relative of werewith the rulers of Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and France (her sister Gertrude, wife of King Andrew II of Hungary, was the mother of St. Elizabeth of Hungary). Jadwiga received an excellent education in the monastery of the Benedictine Sisters in Kitzingen. When she was young she became the wife of Henry I (the Bearded the Silesian Piast family). Both led a pious life and cared for the development of the Church. Duchess Jadwiga was a founder of many churches and monasteries, including the Cistercian monastery in Trzebnica (which largely was built by prisoners). Jadwiga came to the conclusion that the construction work will be more useful than idle rot in the dungeon. Jadwiga was extremely committed for helping the sick and the poor inhabitants. She was more than just help in the hospitals and hospices, inter alia, a hospital for lepers women in Sroda or hospital of St. Spirit in Wroclaw. “The wandering hospital”was her idea too. It was based on the doctors who had been walking around and helping people who were lost in the forest village. She was talking care being really close to the...
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