7" x
4¾" Oil on Tin
$800
20"
x 17½" Oil on Canvas
19th Century Ecuadorian Painting
$1200
Santa
Eduvige
(Saint Hedwig)
Hedwig was the daughter of the Duke of Croatia and married Prince Henry I of Silesia and Poland in 1186 at age 12. She was the mother of seven children. Upon her husband's death, she gave away her fortune and entered the monastery at Trebnitz. Because of great daily fasts and abstinences, she grew very thin. She bountifully bestowed alms on the needy and cared for the sick both personally and by founding hospitals. She gave aid to colleges and to religious persons dwelling within or outside monasteries, to widows and orphans, to the weak and the feeble, to lepers and those bound in chains or imprisoned, to travelers and needy women nursing infants. She allowed no one who came to her for help to go away uncomforted. Through divine favor, she had the power to relieve the bodily and spiritual troubles of all who sought her help.
