Sainte Salomée
Religieuse
clarisse (+ 1268)
ou Salomé.
Elle était princesse, radieuse de beauté, disait-on à la cour de Pologne. A l'âge de treize ans, on la destina à devenir l'épouse du prince de Hongrie, Colman. Devenue souveraine de la Galicie, elle perdit son jeune époux dans un combat contre les Tartares.
Alors elle quitta le monde, donna la moitié de ses biens aux pauvres et l'autre moitié pour reconstruire ce qu'avaient détruit les Tartares. Elle s'en fut dans plusieurs monastères, mais, dans tous, elle resta une "pauvre dame de sainte Claire."
Près de Cracovie en Pologne, l’an 1268, la bienheureuse Salomé. Reine de
Galicie, vivant déjà avec grande dévotion, après la mort de son mari, le roi
Coloman, elle se fit religieuse clarisse et fut choisie comme abbesse dans le
monastère qu’elle avait fondé et qu’elle dirigea saintement.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/190/Sainte-Salomee.html
Also
known as
Salomea of Cracow
Salomea of Poland
Salomea of Polonia
Salome…
Profile
Born to the nobility, the
daughter of Lescon V, Duke of Cracow, and Sandomir. At the age of three years,
she was given in a political marriage to
Colomon, a prince of Hungary,
and the brother of Saint Elizabeth
of Hungary. Widowed,
Salomea followed a call to religious life; she became a Franciscan Poor
Clare nun,
founded a monastery,
and eventually serving as its abbess.
Born
13th
century Galicia (in modern Poland)
17
November 1268 near Cracow, Poland of
natural causes
1673 by Pope Clement
X (cultus
confirmation)
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Ramsgate
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of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
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MLA
Citation
“Blessed Salomea of
Galicia“. CatholicSaints.Info. 25 September 2023. Web. 18 November 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-salomea-of-galicia/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-salomea-of-galicia/
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907),
Bl Salomea, 1895
Article
(Saint) Virgin (November
17) (13th
century) A Polish Saint of
the Franciscan Order,
betrothed in her early years to a prince,
heir to the throne of Hungary.
As Abbess of
a monastery,
she governed with zeal and charity her community, and terminated her labours by
a holy death (November
17, A.D. 1268).
Her sacred Relics are enshrined at Cracow.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Salomea”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
20 November 2016. Web. 18 November 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-salomea/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-salomea/
Wojciech Gerson (1831–1901), Salome Entering the King's Hermitage (St. Salome's Grotto) / Św. Salomea wchodząca do pustelni króla (Grota Św. Salomei), 1893, 216 x 307, "Catalogue of paintings removed from Poland by the German occupation authorities during the years 1939-1945. Polish paintings" / comp. Władysław Tomkiewicz ; Ministry of Culture and Art. Warsaw 1950 Editor: Ministry of Culture and Art. Lost during World War II. See also Department of National Heritage, Wartime losses (an official webpage of Polish Ministry of Culture, Art and National Heritage)
Blessed Salomea of Poland, Poor Clare Widow (AC)
Born in Poland c. 1219; died in Skala, Hungary, 1268; beatified in 1673. Queen and Poor Clare. They sound like two irreconcilable titles, and yet they could be given to another woman--the Virgin Mary. For wasn't she the queen of queens, and didn't she live the life of a Franciscan long before Saint Francis? Saint Francis only rediscovered the simplicity of her life. Every humble task of every woman in the world was known to Mary, the Queen.
Mary, Queen and Poor Clare! The titles crown our earthly Virgin like a crown of white thorns. The hedges are full of them at the moment. But let us return to Salomea, whose path on the earth runs alongside that of the Blessed Virgin.
Salomea was the daughter of Prince Lesko of Poland. At the age of three, like Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, she was taken from her parents to be betrothed to Prince Coloman of Hungary. An archbishop took her to the Hungarian court, where she would be taught the customs of the country. At 13, she was married to her lord.
Coloman, Salomea's husband, died young, leaving her a widow at age 22. He was killed in battle in 1241, and our queen, leaving the government to his brother, could now devote herself entirely to the religious life. She founded the convent of Poor Clares at Zawichost, later removed to Skala, where she became a Poor Clare.
Unlike the Blessed Virgin, Salomea bore no earthly children, but undertook the maternal responsibilities of an abbess. In the convent that she had founded, she would have preferred to take the last place rather than the first, but so great was her merit that whatever place she took, even if it were the last, at once became the first.
Unable to escape this leadership, she humbly accepted it and became the abbess. And if we turn back to Mary we see that she saw herself as the servant, but was the Queen. If we consider the little group of disciples and saintly women as the first Community, then wasn't Mary the Mother also their abbess?
Salomea died after 28 years of religious life, and like Mary went to heaven
(Benedictines, Encyclopedia).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1117.shtml
Kaplica
z grobem bł. Salomei w bazylice Franciszkanów w Krakowie.
Chapel
of Blessed Salomea, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Kraków, Poland
Relique de Salomé dans la basilique des Franciscains de Cracovie.
Blessed
Salome, by Father Silas Barth, O.F.M.
Article
Blessed Salome, daughter
of Lescon V, Duke of Cracow and Sandomir, in Poland, was born at Cracow, in
1201. At the age of three years, she was betrothed by her father to Coloman,
son of Andrew II, King of Hungary, and brother of Saint Elizabeth; and was,
according to the custom of the time, brought to the court where she was to
spend her life, in order to receive an education befitting her high station.
The young princess soon
won the love and admiration of the court by the excellent qualities of her mind
and heart, and by her genuine piety. Endowed with a quick understanding, she
easily mastered the studies prescribed for her by her masters, and became very
proficient in the accomplishments required of persons of her rank. With still
greater earnestness, however, did she strive to adorn her soul with virtue and
to render herself more pleasing in the eyes of God. In the midst of the
pleasures and distractions of the court, she manifested an extraordinary love
for silence, prayer, and spiritual reading, to which pious exercises she
devoted a considerable portion of the day. She was animated with a generous
charity toward all, especially toward the sick and the poor. Very early in life
she was inspired to consecrate her virginity to God, and foreseeing the
opposition she would meet on the part of those who had authority over her, she
committed herself entirely to the guidance and protection of Divine Providence,
confident that God would enable her to fulfill the vow he had inspired her to
make.
The time for her marriage
at length arrived. Salome was then thirteen years of age. After the elaborate
festivities which followed the nuptial Mass, she made known her vow to Coloman,
her husband, and besought him to allow her to keep the promise she made to God
under the inspiration of grace. Coloman, who was a worthy brother of Saint
Elizabeth, granted her request, and together they made the vow of perpetual
virginity. They now devoted themselves with great fervor to the practice of
prayer, mortification, and charity. Salome, especially, was unwearied in these
pious practices. Carried away by the ardor of her soul, she spent many hours of
the day and night in sweet converse with God, during which she was sometimes so
transported out of herself that she would faint away. Her fasts and other
austerities were so severe that Coloman, fearing for her health, felt
constrained to moderate her fervor. The fruit of her constant self-denial and
union with God in prayer and contemplation was a great contempt for the
vanities of the world and the victory over her passions and inordinate
movements of nature. In her love of humility and penance, she joined the Third
Order of Saint Francis, which was then in its infancy. Though regard for her
husband and her high position did not permit her to lay aside her costly
garments, she endeavored to observe the rule of the Order by avoiding, as much
as possible, all display in ornament and dress. It was her delight to relieve
the needy and to visit the poor in their homes. This example of humility and
self-denial in so young- a princess could not fail to exert a salutary
influence on all who came in contact with her. A general reformation took place
at the court. The greatest 1adies laid aside their finery and ornaments,
abstained from worldly amusements, and gave themselves up to practices of piety
and charity. When her husband was chosen King of Galicia, Salome did not change
her mode of life. It was her sole desire to grow in the love of the Divine
Majesty, and she took advantage of the larger means now placed at her disposal
to extend and multiply her good works; and in this she was encouraged and
assisted by her God-fearing husband.
After the death of
Coloman, in 1225, Salome devoted herself even more entirely to the service of
God and of her neighbor. She made use of her great riches to help the poor and
those who had lost their possessions during the invasion of the Tatars, and to
build convents for the Friars Minor and the daughters of Saint Clare. Finally,
in 1240, she carried out her long cherished desire to abandon the world, and
entered the convent of the Poor Clares at Zavichost, where she received the
habit of the Order at the hands of the Bishop of Cracow. Owing to the
incursions of the Tatars, she with the community removed to Sca1en, and thence
to Cracow, where her brother, Duke Boleslas, built a convent for them.
On entering the convent,
Salome gave up all her possessions, spurning the fleeting honors of this world
to gain a never-fading crown of glory in heaven; nor would she permit any
exception or privilege in her regard. She asked for the poorest and most
inconvenient cell, and delighted in performing the lowliest labors in the
convent. She surpassed all her Sisters in the fervor of her devotion and in her
austerities. Her fasts were continual; her bed a mat spread upon a board; and
she never slept more than three or four hours. For many years she filled the
office of abbess, and succeeded by her kind exhortations and especially by the
example of her holy life, in fostering in her Sisters the exact observance of
the Rule and the practice of every religious virtue.
The blessed servant had
thus served God in the seclusion of the convent for twenty-eight years, when
she learned by divine revelation that her end was drawing near. She fell sick
on November 10, 1268, while assisting at Mass. During her illness, which lasted
for seven days, she was for all an example of patience and quiet resignation to
the will of God. After foretelling the day of her death, she called together
her Sisters, and exhorted them to mutual charity, peace, purity of heart,
obedience, and the avoidance of all worldly gossip. In her last moments, Salome
was gladdened by an apparition of our Lady with the Holy Child. Shortly after,
the Sisters who were kneeling around her bed, saw a little star coming out of
her mouth and ascend to heaven. Blessed Salome had given back her soul to God.
According to her wish, her body was entombed in the church of the Friars Minor
at Cracow, by the side of the remains of her husband, King Coloman. On account
of the numerous miracles wrought at her intercession, Pope Clement X approved
the veneration paid her from time immemorial.
MLA
Citation
Father Silas
Barth, O.F.M. Franciscan
Herald, XXX 1918. CatholicSaints.Info.
16 October 2022. Web. 18 November 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-salome-by-father-silas-barth-o-f-m/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-salome-by-father-silas-barth-o-f-m/
Salomé
de Cracóvia, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Krakow
Beata Salomea da
Cracovia Regina d’Ungheria, badessa
Festa: 17 novembre
Cracovia, Polonia, 1211
circa – Sandomierz, Polonia, 17 novembre 1268
Nacque da famiglia reale
a Cracovia, in Polonia, nel 1211. Ancor giovinetta, Salomea fu data in sposa a
Colomanno, figlio di Andrea II, e divenne poi così regina d’Ungheria. I due
sposi vissero in illibata castità. Alla morte del marito, Salomea volle indossare
l’abito francescano fra le Clarisse di Cracovia. Nel monastero, del quale
divenne anche badessa, diede eccellenti esempi di umiltà e di obbedienza. Papa
Clemente X nel 1672 ne confermò il culto quale beata. La sua salma riposanella
chiesa francescana di Cracovia.
Martirologio
Romano: Presso Cracovia in Polonia, beata Saloméa, che, regina di Halicz,
dopo la morte del marito, il re Colomanno, professò la regola delle Clarisse e
svolse santamente l’ufficio di badessa nel monastero da lei fondato.
Salomea nacque verso il
1211 da Leszek il Buono, principe di Cracovia. E’ purtroppo assai difficile
datare i primi eventi della sua vita, in quanto le fonti sul suo conto
differiscono assai considerevolmente.
Pare comunque certo che all’età di soli tre anni venne affidata al vescovo di
Cracovia, il Beato Vincenzo Kadlubek, affinché la conducesse alla corte del
sovrano ungherese Andrea II. Leszek aveva infatti organizzato il matrimonio tra
Salomea e Kálmán (nome solitamente italianizzato come Colomanno), figlio di
Andrea, che a quel tempo aveva solamente sei anni. I matrimoni concordati di
questo genere non erano insoliti a quel tempo e la ragazza spesso sin da
piccola viveva a corte del futuro suocero.
I due bambini furono incoronati e “governarono” Halicz per circa tre anni, finché la città non fu occupata da un principe della Rutenia, Mstislav, che li imprigionò. Durante la prigionia, Salomea, che aveva circa nove anni, pronunciò con il suo fidanzato un voto congiunto di castità.
Quando gli ungheresi riconquistarono Halicz i due furono liberati ed infine fu celebrato solennemente il matrimonio. Pare che dopo la cerimonia Salomea abbia iniziato a condurre una vita ascetica, divenendo terziaria francescana ed impegnandosi affinché la corte diventasse un modello di vita cristiana.
Kálmán governò la Dalmazia e la Slovenia sino alla sua morte, avvenuta nel 1241 combattendo contro i Tartari. Per circa un anno la vedova rimase a corte intenta a compiere opere buone, ma nel 1242 preferì far ritorno in patria. Divenne così generosa benefattrice dei frati minori e, con il sostegno del fratello Boleslao, intraprese nel 1245 la fondazione di un nuovo convento di Clarisse Povere presso Sandomierz. Salomea indossò poi ella stessa l’abito francescano e divenne anche badessa del monastero. Nella vita comune con le consorelle diede eccellenti esempi di umiltà e di obbedienza. Morì il 17 novembre 1268 e le sue spoglie mortali furono poi traslate nella chiesa francescana di Cracovia. Papa Clemente X nel 1672 ne approvò il culto quale beata ed il Martirologium Romanum la commemora ancora oggi nell’anniversario della nascita al cielo.
Autore: Fabio Arduino
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90395
Nov 18 - Bl. Salome of
Cracow - Franciscan Saint of the Day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_Md0gHhPU
Voir aussi : https://krakow.travel/fr/24673-krakow-la-triste-bienfaitrice-de-cracovie
