{"id":18831,"date":"2024-10-26T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/this-princess-saint-was-not-harry-potters-owl-st-hedwig-of-silesia\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:30:09","slug":"this-princess-saint-was-not-harry-potters-owl-st-hedwig-of-silesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/this-princess-saint-was-not-harry-potters-owl-st-hedwig-of-silesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Esta santa princesa no era la lechuza de Harry Potter: Santa Eduvigis de Silesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Una imagen de Santa Eduviges en Breslavia, Polonia. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Hannah Brockhaus\/CNA<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Ciudad del Vaticano, 16 de octubre de 2024 \/ 04:00 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

Los lectores que encuentren esta historia a trav\u00e9s de un motor de b\u00fasqueda probablemente est\u00e9n buscando informaci\u00f3n sobre Hedwig, la lechuza nival de Harry Potter.<\/p>\n

Pero Eduviges de Silesia no era una lechuza; era una princesa, esposa, madre y constructora de puentes entre el pueblo alem\u00e1n y el polaco. (El nombre de su marido era \u201cEnrique el Barbudo\u201d). Fue canonizada como santa en el siglo XIII.<\/p>\n

Santa Eduviges, cuya fiesta celebra la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica el 16 de octubre, recibi\u00f3 una buena educaci\u00f3n en su juventud en un convento en Baviera. Se dice que ella afirm\u00f3 que el conocimiento sumado a la santidad de vida conduce a una mayor gloria para las almas en el cielo.<\/p>\n

Eduviges proven\u00eda de una familia santa: su hermana Gertrudis fue la madre de Santa Isabel de Hungr\u00eda.<\/p>\n

Ella \u201cse hizo conocida como una ayudante de los pobres y, tras su canonizaci\u00f3n, se convirti\u00f3 en una amada santa patrona de los mismos grupos de personas\u201d, dijo a CNA en 2019 el obispo Andrzej Siemieniewski, entonces obispo auxiliar de Breslavia, Polonia (ahora obispo de Legnica desde 2021).<\/p>\n

Siendo a\u00fan una ni\u00f1a, Eduviges se mud\u00f3 a la parte baja de Polonia, la regi\u00f3n llamada Silesia, para casarse con el duque Enrique I el Barbudo. Juntos tuvieron siete hijos, de los cuales solo dos llegaron a la edad adulta.<\/p>\n

Eduviges amaba la Eucarist\u00eda, la oraci\u00f3n y la lectura y meditaci\u00f3n de las Escrituras. En su hogar, hac\u00eda que se leyeran las Escrituras en voz alta durante las comidas. A pesar de su riqueza como duquesa, practicaba un ascetismo riguroso: ayunaba, com\u00eda alimentos sencillos y viv\u00eda con pocas posesiones personales.<\/p>\n

Despu\u00e9s de que sus hijos crecieron, Eduviges se dedic\u00f3 a las obras de misericordia espirituales y corporales, especialmente ayudando a los pobres, enfermos, hambrientos, viudas, hu\u00e9rfanos y mujeres embarazadas.<\/p>\n

A diferencia de otras princesas de la \u00e9poca, Eduviges ayudaba a las personas con sus propias manos y no a trav\u00e9s de sus sirvientes. Tambi\u00e9n daba refugio a personas enfermas y discapacitadas en su castillo. Un bi\u00f3grafo de Eduviges escribi\u00f3 que los pobres la segu\u00edan a todas partes, como si fuera su madre.<\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n visitaba y llevaba comida y otros art\u00edculos a los encarcelados y enviaba dinero a personas que no pod\u00edan pagar sus deudas. Us\u00f3 su posici\u00f3n como duquesa para defender e intervenir en nombre de los prisioneros y las personas condenadas a muerte para que recibieran sentencias m\u00e1s leves o fueran liberados.<\/p>\n

Eduviges fue responsable de traer la Orden del C\u00edster a Silesia. Hizo construir un monasterio y varias iglesias, incluida la primera en la regi\u00f3n. Una de estas iglesias, en la actual Trzebnica, donde est\u00e1 enterrada, es ahora un santuario de la santa, quien fue canonizada en 1267. El santuario es un lugar popular de peregrinaci\u00f3n para personas de todo el mundo.<\/p>\n

El monasterio conectado a esta iglesia todav\u00eda est\u00e1 activo y se considera el edificio del siglo XIII m\u00e1s grande que existe en Europa Central.<\/p>\n

Eduviges vivi\u00f3 en ese monasterio hacia el final de su vida y, aunque no hizo votos religiosos, vivi\u00f3 en comunidad con las religiosas de all\u00ed. La tradici\u00f3n en el monasterio dice que rezaba mucho, hasta el punto de encerrarse a veces en la capilla durante toda la noche.<\/p>\n

La santa tambi\u00e9n ten\u00eda un gran amor por la Sant\u00edsima Virgen Mar\u00eda y llevaba consigo una estatua de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora, us\u00e1ndola para bendecir a los enfermos, de quienes se dice que algunos fueron sanados despu\u00e9s. Fue enterrada con esta estatua, y la tradici\u00f3n dice que cuando su tumba fue abierta a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, los dedos que la sujetaban no se hab\u00edan descompuesto.<\/p>\n

Las im\u00e1genes y estatuas de Santa Eduviges generalmente la representan sosteniendo una estatua de la Sant\u00edsima Virgen Mar\u00eda, alimentando a los pobres o sosteniendo una iglesia.<\/p>\n

Santa Eduviges, como b\u00e1vara, se convirti\u00f3 en un s\u00edmbolo de la \u201cvida cat\u00f3lica y cristiana\u201d en la regi\u00f3n y de c\u00f3mo los alemanes y los polacos pod\u00edan vivir juntos como miembros de una misma Iglesia, dijo Siemieniewski.<\/p>\n

En Breslavia, Polonia, hay una importante estatua de Santa Eduviges junto a un puente monumental. Esto, dijo, simboliza el puente que ella form\u00f3 entre las naciones vecinas de Alemania y Polonia.<\/p>\n

Eduviges tambi\u00e9n es muy querida por el pueblo checo. <\/p>\n

\u201cSanta Eduviges es considerada una madre para el pueblo silesio, y Silesia significaba, en tiempos antiguos, \u2018hogar para muchas naciones\u2019\u201d, explic\u00f3 Siemieniewski.<\/p>\n

Este art\u00edculo fue publicado por primera vez el 16 de octubre de 2019 y ha sido actualizado.<\/em><\/p>\n

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