Św. Jadwiga Śląska, patronka św. Jadwigi Andegaweńskiej, w wypowiedziach św. Jana Pawła II i w dokumentacji procesu kanonizacyjnego świętej Królowej Polski
Journal Title: Studia Salvatoriana Polonica - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue
Abstract
On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Saint Hedwig of Silesia canonization, the article recalls her younger namesake, Saint Jadwiga of Poland, for whom the first one was a patron saint at baptism. When Jadwiga of Poland was born in 1374, her patroness had been venerated as a saint of the Church for 107 years. The Princess had a special devotion for her baptism patroness. She expressed it by choosing the day of the liturgical commemoration of Saint Hedwig for her own coronation for King of Poland in 1384. Furthermore, she instilled the devotion for her patroness in her husband Jagiełło who, after her death, founded a church dedicated to Saint Hedwig, in Nieszawa. When a famous historian Jan Długosz was describing Polish female rulers of the years 1350-1460, he praised none except Saint Queen Jadwiga, „whose virtues were not only equal to, but even greater than those practised by Saint Hedwig of Silesia or Blessed Kunegunda”. Paintings of Queen Jadwiga, along with those of Hedwig the Duchess of Silesia and other saints, were frequently displayed in churches (e.g. the triptych of Wawel, dating roughly from the year 1488). In the West of Europe, Saint Hedwig the Duchess and Saint Jadwiga the Queen were sometimes confused, for instance in the martyrology by Cardinal C. Baronio (1600) or in the work of a French hagiographer A. Bailette (1703). But as early as in the 18th century, the existence of two different saints of that name was usually emphasized (A. Butler, M. Petin, G. Ventury de Raulica). The names of two Saint Jadwigas were mentioned in the calendars (for 1733 and 1759) of S. Duńczewski of Zamość, in the work of B. Chmielewski Polska Świętych Ojczyzna (Poland, the Motherland of Saints) (Lviv, 1746), or in Church prayer books (with an imprimatur of a Church authority). Finally, in 1998, John Paul II mentioned both Jadwigas, along with saints Monica, Olga of Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany, Elizabeth of Thuringia, Bridget of Sweden, Joan D’Arc, Rose of Lime and other women, in his Apostolic Letter Mulieris dignitatem on the dignity and vocation of women. An analysis of John Paul II’s words and of Saint Jadwiga of Poland’s canonization documents shows, there are also some similarities in the message of both Jadwigas, such as the absolute love of Christ expressed in the perfect harmony of life of profound prayer and active engagement on behalf of the neighbour, especially the poor and the needy, in the spirit of service; the love of motherland and working toward a peaceful coexistence of neighbouring nations, along with the concern for their evangelization, Christian identity and faithfulness to the Gospel; concern for the promotion of freedom and culture, of Christian morality and social justice, of unblemished married life and family life, at the cost of one’s own mortification in practicing asceticism and evangelical sacrifice.
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Szczepan Praśkiewicz
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