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| The three-handed painting of Saint Casimir is considered miraculous. According to a legend, the painter attempted to redraw the hand in a different place and paint over the old hand, but the old hand miraculously reappeared. The original painting was covered in gilded silver clothing in 1636 and is in Saint Casimir’s Chapel under his tomb . |
Prince of Poland, born in the royal palace at Cracow, 3 October,
1458; died at the court of Grodno, 4 March, 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. Casimir’s uncle, Wladislaus
III, King of Poland and Hungary, perished at Varna in 1444, defending
Christianity against the Turks. Casimir’s elder brother, Wladislaus,
became King of Bohemia in 1471, and King of Hungary in 1490. Of his four
younger brothers, John I, Albert, Alexander, and Sigismund in turn
occupied the Polish throne, while Frederick, the youngest, became
Archbishop of Gnesen, Bishop of Cracow, and finally cardinal, in 1493.
