Constance of Sicily
Queen of Aragon and titular Queen of Sicily
Feast: 8 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Constance II (in Italian: Costanza; in Catalan: Constança; c. 1249 – (1302-04-09)9 April 1302) was queen regnant of Sicily from September 1282 to November 1285 alongside her husband, King Peter I. She was also queen consort of Aragon from 1276 to 1285. She was a pretender to the Kingdom of Sicily from 1268 to 1282. She was the only daughter of Manfred, King of Sicily, and his first wife, Beatrice of Savoy.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Elizabeth of Aragon Saint Child
- Wikidata Q286537 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Constance II of Sicily (CC BY-SA)
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