A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Adelaide (9)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

B. Adelaide (9), Aug. 29, 1211. Daughter of Casimir II., king of Poland. Cistercian nun at Trebnitz, in the monastery built by St. Hedwig. Adelaide is probably the nun Aleydis Virgo, to whom St. Hedwig told her prescience, or second sight, of the death of her son. Henriquez, Lilia Cist. No authority for her worship. AA.SS.