Blessed Bronislava | |
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Born |
c. 1204 Kamień, Włodawa County |
Died | 29 August 1259 Zwierzyniec, Kraków |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 23 August 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI |
Feast | 1 September |
Blessed Bronislava ( Polish: Bronisława; c. 1204 [1]–1259) was a Polish nun of the Premonstratensian Order. She is beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.
Bronislava was born at Kamień, Włodawa County, in eastern Poland as Bronislawa Odrowaz in about 1200, [2] although some sources give a birth date of 1203 [3] or 1204. [1] She was the daughter of Count Stanislaus and Countess Anna of Prandata-Odrowaz and a cousin of Saint Hyacinth of Poland. [3]
At the age of sixteen, she was introduced by Hyacinth to a religious community of the Norbertine order at Zwierzyniec, Kraków. She subsequently worked with the sick and poor at a number of monasteries, living in a most austere way. She is believed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary at the moment of the death of Hyacinth in 1257. [4] Bronislava died of natural causes on 29 August 1259 at Zwierzyniec. [2]
Her cult began soon after her death, [5] and in 1707 she was designated a patron of Poland, and of orphans. She was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI on 23 August 1839, [2] after being attributed for protecting Zwierzyniec from cholera in 1835. Her feast day is celebrated on 1 September. [6]
She is commemorated by the Blessed Bronisława Chapel in Kraków. A minor planet discovered in 1933 was named " Bronislawa" in her honour. [7] There is a street named for her in the Ligota-Panewniki region of Katowice. [8]
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