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May 7

Gisela, Queen of Hungary (+1060)

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Practical advice

In the midst of your ordinary work, prepare well for a conversation in which you must guide someone without leaving for tomorrow the good that you can do today.

Biography

Daughter of Saint Henry, Emperor of Germany, and wife of King Saint Stephen, the introducer of Christianity in Hungary. Her married life must have been happy with such a good and cheerful husband. When Stephen died, he returned to his native Bavaria and died there twenty years later in Niedenbug Abbey.

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