Some time about the year 1205 Bd Vincent Kadlubek, Bishop of Cracow, was commissioned to take a child of three years old to the court of King Andrew II of Hungary. She was Salome, daughter of Leszek the Fair of Poland, who had arranged a marriage for her with Andrew's son, Koloman. Ten years later the marriage was solemnized. But Salome lived more like a nun than a princess; she became a tertiary of the Franciscan Order, and did her best to make her court a model of Christian life. About 1225 Koloman was killed in battle. Salome continued to live in the world for some years, being a liberal benefactress of the Friars Minor and founding a convent of Poor Clares, to which she herself retired eventually. She was a nun for twenty-eight years, and was elected abbess of the community. Bd Salome died on November 17, 1268, and her cultus was approved by Pope Clement X.
There is a medieval Latin life printed in the Monumenta Poloniae Historica, vol. iv pp. 776-796; and some account in Wadding, Annales Ord. Min., vol. iii, pp. 353-355 and vol. iv, pp. 284-285. See also Léon, Auréole Séraphique (Eng. trans.), vol. iv, pp. 71-74
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(Butler's Lives of the Saints, Christian Classics, 1995)
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