Salome of Krakow
November 18 is the feast day for Blessed Salome of Krakow, a Polish princess and nun who lived from 1211 to 1268. She is honored as a saint for her piety, founding one of the first Poor Clare convents in Poland, and living in chastity with her husband, Coloman of Hungary, even after he became king.
Salome was the daughter of Duke Leszek V of Krakow and a sister of Bolesław V the Chaste. She married Prince Coloman of Hungary, and they both vowed to live in continence. After her husband's death in 1241, she entered the Poor Clare convent she had previously founded in Zawichost.
She was beatified in 1672 by Pope Clement X. Her tomb is located in the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Krakow.
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