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Kinga («Cunegonda»), Blessed

KINGA («CUNEGONDA»), BEATA

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KINGA («Cunegonda»), Blessed. - Patroness of Poland and Lithuania, b. in 1224, d. at Stary Sącz on 24 July 1292. Sister of Blessed Jolanda and Blessed Margaret, daughter of Béla IV of Hungary and of Theodora Laskaris. Still very young, she married in 1239 the Duke of Kraków Bolesław V. In 1279 she founded the convent and church of the Poor Clares at Stary Sącz in Poland.

To her is ascribed the miraculous discovery of the salt mines of Bochnia in Poland. In 1628 the process of beatification was begun. Pope Alexander VIII confirmed her cult on 10 June 1690, and in 1715 Clement XI established her as patroness of Poland and Lithuania.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Iulii, V, Antwerp 1727, p. 660; J. Leszek, Zyust. z. Kunegandy, Kraków 1868; W. Schmidt, Die Kunegandung, Budapest 1891. Miroslav Štumpf

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), coll. 700–701.

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Stumpf, Miroslav. “Kinga («Cunegonda»), beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, coll. 700–701. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/kinga-cunegonda-beata.

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Stumpf, Miroslav. “Kinga («Cunegonda»), beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 700–701. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/kinga-cunegonda-beata.

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  author    = {Stumpf, Miroslav},
  title     = {Kinga («Cunegonda»), beata},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {700--701},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/kinga-cunegonda-beata}
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