Saint Kinga
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- Also known as
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Cunegunde of Poland
Kioga
Zinga
- Memorial
- 24 July
- Profile
- Niece of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
Great-niece of Saint Hedwig.
Polish royalty, married to Prince Boleslaus during the Tartar invasion.
Founded a convent in Sandez.
In her old age she retired to the convent as a Franciscan tertiary.
- Died
- 1292 in the convent at Sandez of natural causes
- Beatified
- 11 June 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII
- Canonized
- 16 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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