ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 17th of August WELCOME! SAINT HYACINTH OF SILESIA Saint Hyacinth was of the ancient house of the counts of Oldrovans, one of the most illustrious of Silesia. His grandfather, the great general against the Tartars, left two sons. Yvo, the younger, was chancellor of Poland and bishop of Cracow. Eustachias, the elder, was count of Konski, the first fruit of whose virtuous marriage was St Hyacinth, born in 1185, in the castle of Saxony, in the diocese of Breslau in Silesia. HE PRESERVED AN UNSPOTTED INNOCENCE OF MANNERS His parents diligently cultivated his happy natural dispositions for virtue, and he preserved an unspotted innocence of manners through the slippery paths of youth during his studies at Cracow, Prague, and Bologna; in which last university he took the degree of doctor of the laws and divinity. DOCTOR OF THE LAWS AND DIVINITY Returning to the bishop of Cracow, predecessor to Yvo of Konski, that ...