Doubrava - church of St. Silesian Hedviks

Perhaps the most important building in the village is the church of St. Hedvik of Silesia, which was built between 1894 and 1898. Hedvik of Silesia, princess, saint and patroness, was born in Bavaria in 1174, but at the age of 12 she was married to Henry I the Bearded, prince of Wrocław and Opole from the Piast family. After giving birth to her last seventh child (she gave birth to her first at the age of thirteen), she lived in abstinence and…