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Saints and Blesseds
Saint Hedwig
February 6
Countess Hedwig, on losing her husband, Count Herman of Lidtberg, retired with her third daughter, Gertrude, into the Premonstratensian convent of Dunwald. The example of her mother was followed by another daughter, Hildegund, when her husband, Count Lothair, and one of her sons had died and the other, Herman, had entered a monastery. Hildegund and her daughter Hedwig assumed the Premonstratensian habit and removed the convent to a more convenient site, where it grew and flourished, filled with holy women who maintained an unbroken stream of prayer and praise: the house, in the words of its charter, had been converted from being a fort for military exercises into a college for holy virgins.
Footnotes:
See the Acta Sanctorum, February, vol. i; and Dunbar, Dictionary of Saintly Women, vol. i).
Source: Butler's Lives of the Saints, unabridged, volume I, page 265-266, February 6.
