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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Hedwig
DESCRIPTION:ST HEDWIG OF SILESIA2 ◊◊◊ \nThe father of this saint was Bertold III of Andechs\, Marquis of Meran\, Count of Tirol\, and Prince of Carinthia and Istria… Her mother was Agnes\, daughter of the Count of Rotletchs. St. Hedwig\, by a distinguishing effect of the divine mercy in her favour\, was from her cradle formed to virtue by the example and lessons of her devout mother and of those that were placed about her… She was placed very young in the monastery of Lutzingen\, in Franconia\, and only taken thence when twelve years old to marry Henry\, Duke of Silesia\, descended of the Dukes of Glogau\, in that country; to which match she only consented out of compliance with the will of her parents… \nWhether in prosperity or adversity\, her whole comfort was in God and in the exercises of religion. The duke\, at her persuasion and upon her yielding into his hands her whole dower for this purpose\, founded the great monastery of Cistercian nuns at Trebnitz\, three miles from Breslau\, the capital of Silesia; upon which he settled the town of Trebnitz and other estates… \nThe duchess practiced in her palace greater austerities than those of the most rigid monks\, fasted and watched in prayer\, and wherever she travelled had always thirteen poor persons with her\, whom she maintained\, in honour of Christ and his apostles\, waiting upon them herself upon her knees at table\, where they were served with good meat before she took her own coarse refection. She often washed the feet and kissed the ulcers of lepers\, and having an extreme desire to hear that amiable sentence from Christ at the last day\, “I was in prison and you visited me”… \nUpon receiving the news of her husband being wounded in battle and taken prisoner by the Duke of Kirne\, she said\, without the least disturbance of mind\, that \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nshe hoped to see him in a short time at liberty and in good health. The conqueror rejected all terms that could be offered for his freedom; which obliged Henry\, our saint’s eldest son\, to raise a powerful army to attempt his father’s rescue by force of arms. Hedwig\, whose tender soul could never hear of the effusion of Christian blood without doing all in her power to prevent it\, went in person to Conrad\, and the very sight of her disarmed him of all his rage\, so that she easily obtained what she demanded. \nThe example of our saint had so powerful an influence over her husband that he not only allowed her an entire liberty as to her manner of living and exercises of piety\, but began at length in some degree to copy her virtues; observed the modesty and recollection of a monk in the midst of a court; and became the father of his people and the support of the poor and weak… He died happily in 1238… From that time she put on the religious habit at Trebnitz\, and lived in obedience to her daughter Gertrude\, who\, having made her religious profession in that house when it was first founded\, had been before that time chosen abbess… \nThe passion of Christ\, which she had always made a principal part of her most tender devotion\, was the chief entertainment by which she prepared herself for her last passage. God was pleased to put a happy end to her labours by calling her to himself on the 15th of October 1243. Her mortal remains were deposited at Trebnitz. She was canonized in 1266 by Clement IV\, and her relics were enshrined the year following. Pope Innocent XI appointed the 17th of this month for the celebration of her office. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n2 Accessed online: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/hedwig-598 \n\n\n  \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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