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• Catholic Encyclopedia
St. Hedwig, 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.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07189a.htm

• Catholic Online
Short biography of St. Hedwig, religious.
http://saints.catholic.org/saints/hedwig.html

• For All the Saints
Biographical essay on St. Hedwig, also known as Jadwiga or Avoice. Her feast day is 16 October.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1016.htm#hedw

• Lives of the Saints
St. Hedwig or St. Hedwiges, or Avoice, Widow. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STHEDWIG.htm

• Patron Saints Index
Profile of St. Hedwig.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainth03.htm