ST. HEDWIGE.
FEAST DAY: OCTOBER 16TH
SAINT HEDWIGE, the wife of Henry, Duke of Silesia, and the
mother of his six children, led a humble, austere, and most
holy life amidst all the pomp of royal state. Devotion
to the Blessed Sacrament was the key-note of her life. Her valued privilege was to supply the bread and wine for the Sacred
Mysteries, and she would attend each morning as many Masses as
were celebrated. After the death of her husband she retired to the
Cistercian convent of Trebnitz, where she lived under obedience to
her daughter Gertrude, who was abbess of the monastery, growing day by day in
holiness, till God called her to Himself, A.D. 1242.