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At the age of 26, Casimir died on March 4, 1484 in Grondo, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in modern Belarus), a victim of tuberculosis. He was buried with a copy of a Marian hymn he frequently recited. His remains were interred in Vilnius Cathedral, where the dedicated Saint Casimir’s Chapel was built in 1636. After a lapse of one hundred and ...
Saint CasimirPrince of Poland(1458-1483) Casimir, the second son of Casimir III, King of Poland, was born in 1458. From the custody of a very virtuous mother, Elizabeth of Austria, he passed to the guardianship of a devoted master, the learned and pious John Dugloss. Thus animated from his earliest years by precept and example, his innocence ...
Casimir, Saint, Prince of Poland, b. in the royal palace at Cracow, October 3, 1458; d. at the court of Grodno, March 4, 1484.He was the grandson of Wladislaus II Jagiello, King of Poland, who introduced Christianity into Lithuania, and the second son of King Casimir IV and Queen Elizabeth, an Austrian princess, the daughter of Albert II, Emperor of Germany and King of Bohemia and Hungary.
Mar 4, 2024 · The patron saint of Poland and Lithuania, St. Casimir (1458-1483) was the second son of King Casimir IV and third in line for the Polish throne. While a youth, Casimir was educated by the great Polish scholar John Dlugosz, from whom he learned to be virtuous and devout; he also practiced many forms of penance, and dedicated himself to a life of ...
Mar 15, 1999 · By Tomas Michalskis, PH.D. Saint Casimir ( Šventas Kazi ieras), Lithuania’s PATRON AND ONLY CANONIZED SAINT, WAS BORN INTO THE ILLUSTRIOUS LITHUANIAN DYNASTY OF GEDIMINAS in Cracow, Poland in 1458. He was the grandson of Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, who accepted Christianity and ascended the Polish throne in 1386 with the name of Wladislaw.
Mar 4, 2024 · Długosz and Saint Casimir by Florian Cynk (circa 1869) (wikipedia.org) Today’s saint, one of the patrons of Poland, and of Lithuania, whose very name means ‘bearer of peace’, makes a very a propos intercessor for our troubled world. May peace prevail.) Saint Casimir died young – as the good often do – entering eternity on this day ...
+ Saint Casimir died of tuberculosis in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1484, at the age of twenty-five. He was canonized in 1602 and is honored as a patron saint of Poland and Lithuania.
