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Who was the daughter of the King of Bohemia who
founded the Order of Crosiers of the Red Star at a hospital for the poor?

   Teresa of Avila
   Francis Xavier Cabrini
   Teresa of Jesus
   Agnes of Prague

Your answer was: Teresa of Jesus.


Answer: St Agnes of Prague was the daughter of the King of Bohemia who founded the Order of Crosiers of the Red Star in 1237 at a hospital for the poor in Prague. She also built a monastery in Prague to which she invited a group of Poor Clare nuns from Assisi, Italy. St Clare wrote Agnes four letters, one of which is read in the Liturgy of the Hours, the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. Agnes was canonized in 1989.

Click Here to view the four letters from
'St Clare to St Agnes'
on Slr-Ofs.org



Blessed Agnes of Prague
700th Anniversary of Death
705-706 (1982)


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