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   February 28th - Saint Hedwig of Andechs   
      
    (1174 - October 1243; Polish: Swieta Jadwiga Slaska)   
      
   Saint Hedwig was born at Castle Andechs, Bavaria, the daughter of Berthold   
   III, Count of Tirol and Duke of Carinthia and Istria (Andechs-Meran), and   
   his wife Agnes.   
      
   One of Hedwig's sisters married Andrew, King of Hungary. Their daughter was   
   Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, also known as Elizabeth of Thuringia.   
      
   Another of Hedwig's sisters was abbess at the Benedictine convent of   
   Lutzingen in Franconia, where Hedwig received her education.   
      
   At age 18, Hedwig married Henryk I the Bearded of Glogów. In 1233 Henryk   
   also became Duke of Greater Poland. He died in battle with the Mongols in   
   1238. Upon his death, Hedwig entered the Cistercian convent of Trzebnica.   
      
   Hedwig and Henryk I the Bearded had a son, Henryk II. In 1241 he was also   
   killed in battle with the Mongols, who had attacked Eastern Europe and come   
   all the way to Silesia and Brandenburg. The Mongols' aim was to reach the   
   Baltic Sea, subjugating all the peoples in their path. The Mongol army was   
   turned back by German and Polish forces under Gotthart Brandis.   
      
   Hedwig and Henryk had lived a very pious life, and Hedwig had great zeal for   
   religion. She always helped the poor, went barefoot even in winter, and   
   donated all her fortune to the Church and the poor.   
      
   She died in October 1243 and was buried at Trzebnica, while relics of her   
   are preserved at Andechs Abbey.   
      
   Hedwig was canonized in 1267.   
      
   Hedwig is the patron saint of Brandenburg, Berlin, Silesia and its capital   
   Wroclaw, of Trzebnica, the Diocese of Goerlitz, of Andechs and of Kraków.   
   St. Hedwig's Cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Berlin.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "The spirit of Christian charity lives not within you, if you lament the   
   body from which the soul has departed, but lament not the soul from which   
   God has departed."   
   -St. Augustine (Doctor, 354-430) - "Catechism of the Council of Trent"   
      
   Bible Quotes:   
   "Purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:   
   let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow"  (James   
   4:8-9)   
      
   "the death of sinners is very evil" - Ps 33:21   
      
      
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   Prayers Honoring the 7 Times Jesus Spilled His Precious Blood for Us, as   
   Revealed by Our Lady to St. Bridget, and Approved by Pope Clement XII   
      
   Our Lord made these promises to anyone who recited/prayed these   
   Prayers for 12 entire  years**:   
   1. The soul who prays them will suffer no Purgatory.   
   2. The soul who prays them will be accepted among the Martyrs as though   
   he had spilled his blood for his faith.   
   3. The soul who prays them can choose three others whom Jesus will then   
   keep in a state of grace sufficient to become holy.   
   4. No one in the four successive generations of the soul who prays them   
   will be lost.   
   5. The soul who prays them will be made conscious of his death one month   
   in advance.   
      
   ** If the soul praying these prayers dies before the entire 12 years of   
   prayers have been completed, the Lord will accept them as having been   
   prayed in their entirety, because the intention of the soul was to complete   
   them as directed.   
      
   If a day or a few days are missed due to a valid reason, they can be made up   
   for later, at the soul's earliest opportunity.   
      
   The 12 Year Prayers:   
      
   O Jesus, now I wish to pray the Lord's Prayer seven times in unity with the   
   love with which You sanctified this prayer in Your Heart. Take it from my   
   lips into Your Divine Heart. Improve and complete it so much that it brings   
   as much honor and joy to the Trinity as You granted it on earth with this   
   prayer. May these pour upon Your Holy Humanity in Glorification to Your   
   Painful Wounds and the Precious Blood that You spilled from them.   
      
   First Prayer: The Circumcision   
      
   Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary before each prayer   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You the first wounds, the first pains, and the first   
   Bloodshed as atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of youth, as   
   protection against the first mortal sin, especially among my relatives.   
      
   Second Prayer: The Suffering on the Mount of Olives   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You the terrifying suffering of Jesus' Heart on the Mount of   
   Olives and every drop of His Bloody Sweat as atonement for my and all of   
   humanity's sins of the heart, as protection against such sins and for the   
   spreading of Divine and brotherly Love.   
      
   Third Prayer: The Flogging   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You the many thousands of Wounds, the gruesome Pains, and the   
   Precious Blood of the Flogging as atonement for my and all of humanity's   
   sins of the Flesh, as protection against such sins and the preservation of   
   innocence, especially among my relatives.   
      
   Fourth Prayer: The Crowning of Thorns   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You the Wounds, the Pains, and the Precious Blood of Jesus'   
   Holy Head from the Crowning with Thorns as atonement for my and all of   
   humanity's sins of the Spirit, as protection against such sins and the   
   spreading of Christ's kingdom here on earth.   
      
   Fifth Prayer: The Carrying of the Cross   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You the Sufferings on the way of the Cross, especially His   
   Holy Wound on His Shoulder and its Precious Blood as atonement for my and   
   all of humanity's rebellion against the Cross, every grumbling against Your   
   Holy Arrangements and all other sins of the tongue, as protection against   
   such sins and for true love of the Cross.   
      
   Sixth Prayer: The Crucifixion   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of   
   Jesus, I offer You Your Son on the Cross, His Nailing and Raising, His   
   Wounds on the Hands and Feet and the three streams of His Precious Blood   
   that poured forth from these for us, His extreme tortures of the Body and   
   Soul, His precious Death and its non-bleeding Renewal in all Holy Masses on   
   earth as atonement for all wounds against vows and regulations within the   
   Orders, as reparation for my and all of the world's sins, for the sick and   
   the dying, for all holy priests and laymen, for the Holy Father's intentions   
   toward the restoration of Christian families, for the strengthening of   
   Faith, for our country and unity among all nations in Christ and His Church,   
   as well as for the Diaspora.   
      
   Seventh Prayer: The Piercing of Jesus' Side   
      
   Eternal Father, accept as worthy, for the needs of the Holy Church and as   
   atonement for the sins of all Mankind, the Precious Blood and Water which   
      
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