This princess saint was not Harry Potter’s owl: St. Hedwig of Silesia

[ad_1] An image of St. Hedwig in Wroclaw, Poland. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican City, Oct 16, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Readers who find this story through a search engine are probably looking for information about Hedwig, Harry Potter’s snowy owl.But Hedwig of Silesia was not an owl — she was a princess, wife, mother, and builder of bridges between the German and Polish people. (Her husband’s name was “Henry the Bearded.”) She was canonized a saint in the…