Blessed Helen of Poland was born in Hungary as Princess Jolenta around the year 1235. She was the niece of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and grand-niece of Saint Hedwig of Andechs, and younger sister of Blessed Cunegund of Poland. This sister raised her. She married the Duke and became the mother of three. She became a Franciscan tertiary and founded a Poor Clare convent in Poland. She was widowed in 1279. She retired to the Poor Clare convent in Cunegund with one of her daughters and Cunegund. Helen became the superior of the convent she founded just before her death, which was on June 11, 1298 in Gnesen, Poland. She was beatified on September 26, 1827.
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