St. Wenceslaus Medal
This St. Wenceslaus Medal and Necklace features a pendant with a hand pressed image of St. Wenceslaus surrounded by the words ‘St. Wenceslaus Pray for Us’.
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St. Wenceslaus
Saint Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, was born of a Christian father, Wratislaus, and a pagan mother, Drahomira. The education of Wenceslas the elder son, was entrusted to his grandmother Ludmilla a devout Christian, who lived at Prague. With the utmost care she endeavored to instill into his mind and heart a sincere devotion and love of God. On the other hand, Boleslaus was influenced by his cruel, pagan mother.
When the children were quite young their father died. Drahomira assumed the title of regent, seized the government, and gave vent to her rage against the Christians by closing the churches and forbidding Priests and others to teach the Christian religion. Ludmilla encouraged Wenceslaus to assume control of the government. The young Duke obeyed, and the Bohemians showed their approval by dividing the country between him and his younger brother Boleslaus. Drahomira was enraged, and influenced Boleslaus in his hatred of Christianity.
A Holy & Loving Ruler
Wenceslaus strove to establish peace and justice in his dominions and to convert his subjects to Christianity. He ruled his kingdom by kindness rather than by authority. He had great devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Not content to pray in the churches during the day, he often rose at midnight to go and pray before the Blessed Sacrament. His mother never ceased to plot against him. She looked upon Ludmilla as the prime mover of all counsels in favor of the Christian religion and plotted take her life. The assassins found her prostrate in prayer in her domestic chapel, seized her, and strangled her with her own veil.
She is honored in Bohemia as a martyr. This crime grieved Wenceslaus. His piety was the occasion of his death. He had been treacherously invited to a banquet by his brother, at the instigation of their mother. Then Boleslaus, together with some wicked accomplices, killed him as he was praying in the church, aware of the death that awaited him. His blood is still to be seen sprinkled on the walls; and, by the vengeance of God, the earth swallowed up the inhuman mother, and the murderers perished miserably in various ways.
St. Wenceslaus Rosary
UPC: 617759255492
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