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St. Hedwig or St Hedwiges, or Avoice, Widow, Duchess of Poland
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STHEDWIG.htm
From Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Patron Saints Index: Hedwig
http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth03.htm
Illustrated profile of the Queen of Poland.
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Hedwig
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07189a.htm
Duchess of Silesia, aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Hedwig married Henry I, and was the mother of seven. Upon her husband's death, she entered a Cistercian monastery. Died 1243.