Blessed Vincent Kadlubek
- Also known as
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Vincent Kadlubo
Vincent Kadlubko
Vincent of Cracow
Wincenty Kadlubek
- Memorial
- 8 March
- Profile
- Born wealthy.
Studied in France and Italy.
Provost of the cathedral of Sandomir.
May have been the principal of the cathedral school of Cracow, Poland.
Bishop of Cracow, Poland from 28 March 1208.
Worked to reform the clergy and invigorate the laity in his diocese.
Supported monasteries in Sulejow, Koprzywnica, and Jedrzejow.
Peacemaker between Hungary and Poland over the area of Galicia.
Vincent resigned his see in 1218, and became the first Polish Cistercian monk, entering the house at Jedrzejow.
Noted writer, author of the Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland.
- Born
- 1160 at Karnow, Duchy of Sandomir, Poland
- Died
- 8 March 1223 at Jedrzejow, Poland of natural causes;
buried before the high altar in the abbey church
- Beatified
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18 February 1764 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed);
in Poland he is referred to as Saint Vincent
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Catholic Online
Enciclopediaca Catolica [español]
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Kirken i Norge [norwegian]
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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