Saint Agnes of Bohemia March 2 -Santa Inés de Praga o de Bohemia, clarisa de República Checa († 1282…

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Saint Agnes of Bohemia March 2
-Santa Inés de Praga o de Bohemia, clarisa de República Checa († 1282) Inés, hija de Premisl Otakar I, rey de Bohemia y de la reina Constancia, hermana de Andrés I, rey de Hungría, nació en Praga en el año 1211. En 1220, prometida en matrimonio a Enrique VII, hijo del emperador Federico II, fue llevada a la corte del duque de Austria, donde vivió hasta el año 1225, manteniéndose siempre fiel a los deberes de la vida cristiana. Rescindido el pacto de matrimonio, volvió a Praga, donde se dedicó a una vida de oración más intensa y a obras de caridad; después de madura reflexión decidió consagrar a Dios su virginidad. Amó a la Iglesia, implorando para sus hijos los dones de la perseverancia en la fe y la solidaridad cristiana. Se hizo colaboradora de los Romanos Pontífices, que para el bien de la Iglesia solicitaban sus oraciones y su mediación ante los reyes de Bohemia, sus familiares. Amó a su patria, a la que benefició con las obras de caridad …More

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Saint Agnes of Prague - March 2
Also known as
Anežka Ceská
Anežka Premyslovna
Agnes of Bohemia
Memorial
2 March
6 March on some calendars
8 June on some older calendars
Profile
Born a princess, the youngest daughter of King Ottokar I and Queen Constance of Bohemia. Relative of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
Educated by Cistercian nuns at Trebnitz, Germany. Though she early perceived a call to religious life, Agnes was for years promised into a series of arranged marriages for political reasons. At age three she was promised to a prince named Boleslaus. When he died prior to the marriage, she was betrothed to Prince Henry, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. When Henry chose to marry another, young Agnes was betrothed to Emperor Frederick himself. With the help and intervention of Pope Gregory IX, though affronted, Frederick released Agnes from her marriage obligations, acknowledging that he had lost her to the king of heaven.
She built a Franciscan hospital on land donated by her brother, King Wenceslaus I. She then established the Confraternity of the Crusaders of the Red Star to staff it and its related clinics. She later built a Franciscan friary, and in 1234, Poor Clare convent of Saint Saviour in Prague (in modern Czech Republic) with the aid of five nuns sent by Saint Clare of Assisi herself. Agnes entered the convent of Saint Saviour herself on Pentecost Sunday 1234, eventually became its abbess, and spent 50 years in the cloister.
Agnes was always free with her wealth in service of the poor. She enjoyed cooking for the other sisters, and mending the clothes of lepers. She had the gifts of healing and prophecy, and was given to ecstasies. Though they never met, she and Saint Clare of Assisi kept up an extensive correspondence for two decades, and some of the letters have survived to today.
Born
1205 at Prague, Bohemia (modern Czech Republic)
Died
6 March 1282 at Saint Saviour convent, Prague, Bohemia of natural causes
Beatified
28 November 1874 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation)
11 February 1989 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
Canonized
12 November 1989 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy