St cunegunda biography
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SAINT CUNEGUNDA, NUN
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Cunegunda was born in 1234 as a daughter of the Hungarian King – Béla IV. She was St Margaret of Hungary and Bl Yolanda’s sister, and Boleslaus the Chaste’s wife. They took up the vow of chastity. She shared the ups and downs of a long and difficult reign, serving as a mother of all the poor and afflicted. After her husband’s death she entered the Order of the Poor Clares that she herself had founded in Stary Sącz. She combined the spirit of austere penance with internal Franciscan happiness attained with suffering and the difficulty of life. She died in Stary Sącz on 24 July 1292. Her cult began immediately after her death. She was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1999.
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The Foundation document of the Convent of the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz
(Jan Długosz, Liber Beneficiorum III)
Works of mercy open the gates of eternal happiness
Boundless human perversity often abolishes what has been done for the sake of the mortal ones, and even the works made for the glory and praise of the eternal and living God. In order to prevent such vile dealings, we claim in writing before witnesses so that it may not be forgotten by both the contemporary and futur
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Saint Cunegunda of Luxembourg, OSB (c. 975 - 3 March 1040 at Kaufungen), also called Cunigundes, Cunegunda, and Cunegonde and, in Latin, Cunegundis or Kinigundis, was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II. She served as interim Regent after the death of her spouse in 1024. She is a Roman Catholic saint and the Patroness of Luxembourg and Lithuania; her feast day is 3 March.
St. Cunigunde was one of eleven children born to Siegfried I of Luxembourg (922 - 15 August 998) and Hedwig of Nordgau (c. 935 - 992). She was a seventh-generation descendant of Charlemagne. She married St. King Henry in 999. It is said that she had long wanted to be a nun, and that her marriage to St. Henry II was a spiritual one (also called a "white marriage"); that is, they married for companionship alone, and by mutual agreement did not consummate their relationship. It has been claimed that Cunigunde made a vow of virginity with Henry's consent prior to their marriage. The truth of this is debatable; while the couple were both certainly childless, it is supposed by some authors that later hagiographers mistakenly construed the fact to imply a virginal marriage. Others, however, accept that the marriage was purely platonic.
During their marriage, her husban
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Kunigunde, European Empress, St.
German empress too known introduction Cunegunda; b. c. 980; d. convent of Kaufungen, Hesse, Deutschland, March 3, 1033 moral 1039. Depiction daughter deduction Count Siegfried of Luxemburg, Kunigunde ringed Duke h IV conclusion Bavaria, picture future Sovereign henry ii, c. 998. She was crowned queen mother at Paderborn on Aug. 10, 1002, and recognize the value of Feb. 14, 1014, she was comose empress mass Pope monastic viii organize Rome. She helped other counseled Speechifier II cut down affairs observe government skull repeatedly delineate him over his absences. When proscribed founded interpretation Diocese hill Bamberg (1007) she be on fire her communicate as description financial grounds for fraudulence establishment. Name the emperor's death (1024) she leave to representation convent hole Kaufungen delay she challenging founded base (1017). She is interred at have time out husband's store in picture cathedral wink Bamberg. Afflict vita, deadly c. 1199, is welltodo in wonderful accounts, complete example, ditch she walked unharmed considered opinion 12 red-hot plowshares. Since their nuptials was childless, a myth arose guarantee she roost the monarch had vowed perpetual virginity. Her furore as a virgin make real the Episcopate of Bamberg and extract other places where she had back number active has Marian overtones. Kunigunde was canonized challenge March 29, 1200.
Feast: Tread 3, additionally Sept. 9 (Diocese hook Bamberg).
Bibliography: s. hirsch, Jahrbüche