When she was three years old, Agnes was entrusted to the care of Hedwig of Andechs, the wife of Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia.

She decided to devote her life to prayer and spiritual works, for which she sought the help of Pope Gregory IX.

Emperor Frederick is said to have remarked: "If she had left me for a mortal man, I would have taken vengeance with the sword, but I cannot take offence because in preference to me she has chosen the King of Heaven.

Through them, Agnes learned of Clare of Assisi and her Order of Poor Ladies, the monastic counterpart of the friars.

[7] As a nun, she cooked for and mended the clothes of lepers and paupers, even after becoming abbess of the Prague Clares the following year.

[10] A lay group working at the hospital was organized by Agnes in 1238 as a new military order, dedicated primarily to nursing, known as the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, following the Rule of St. Augustine.

The Monastery of the Holy Savior, renamed the Convent of Saint Agnes, (Czech: Klášter sv.

Restored in the 1960s, the building is now a branch of the National Gallery in Prague, featuring the medieval Central European and Bohemian collections.

[14][13] While she was known by her contemporaries because of her supposed visions and healing, such as her prophecy that King Wenceslaus would be victorious in his battle against the Austrians, her canonization was based on her practice of the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity to an extraordinary degree, and the church's view is confirmed either through a miracle granted by God in answer to the saint's prayers or as in this case, by the continuing devotion of the Christian faithful to a saint's example across centuries.

She was honored in 2011, the 800th anniversary of her birth, as the Saint of the Overthrow of Communism,[15] with a year dedicated to her by Catholics in the Czech Republic.

Contributing partners included are the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, the National Archives and Charles University.