A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Przbislawa
St. Przbislawa, Przipislavva, or Pribislava, 10th century. One of the native Patron Saints of Bohemia. Granddaughter of St. Ludmilla. Daughter of Wratislaus, duke of Bohemia (+ 916) and his heathen wife Drahomira. Sister of St. Wenceslas and of Boleslas the cruel. Aunt of St. Mlada. Drahomira and Boleslas were strong upholders of the heathen party in the State while Wenceslas was an earnest Christian. In 938 Boleslas killed Wenceslas at the door of the church. In the struggle Wenceslas's left ear was cut off. After a time so many miracles were wrought by the murdered Saint, that his guilty brother became alarmed and had his body translated into the church of St. Vitas, in Prague; but the severed ear was missing until it was divinely revealed to his holy sister Przbislawa in what place it must be sought for. She was buried first near the village of Jablon, under Mount Krutina, where God honoured her body with celestial lights and angelic songs, whereby many heathen were won to Christ, and after several years she was solemnly translated to a church built in her name and honour, by a certain Christian named Chotislaw. Now she lies in the citadel of Prague, beside her brother St. Wenceslas, near the door of the cathedral.
Chanowski, Vestigium Boheiniæ Piæ. Dlugosch, Hist. Poloniæ, I. 90. Palacky, Gesch. v. Böhmen. Balbinus. Hist. Ducibus ac Regibus Bohemiæ.
Przbislawa is possibly the same as Strzezislawa, mother of St. Adalbert. Strzezislawa is called daughter of Wratislaw, and, in certain monastic records referred to by Chanowski, she is styled a sister of St. Wenceslaus. She married Count Slawnic of Libic, who was related on his mothar's side to the ducal house of Saxony. Slawnick and Strzezislawa had six sons, of whom five at least were martyrs. The most famous was Woytesch or Wojtjch, afterwards called Adalbert. He was the second bishop of Prague, succeeding Ditmar in 982. He was most earnest in teaching and spreading the Christian religion in his own country and in Poland and Hungary, and was for some years a monk in Italy. After his return to Bohemia, he was murdered by heathens, and is accounted a martyr. One of his brothers, Radim, was devoted to him and was perhaps killed with him in 997; the other four were besieged in their ancestral castle of Libic, by the Wrsowces, and being driven at last to take refuge in the church, were murdered before the altar. Palacky. Chanowski, Vestigia, II. 42.