For years villagers from Świątniki were coming to attend to
the Cathedral, taking turns every week, and were staying
then in a room prepared specially for them, under the
Sigismund Tower. Acting as Assistance to God‟s Service they
were wearing appropriate, long, dark outfits with capes.
The second legend is about the little foot of Queen Jadwiga.
According to the legend while passing together with her
court by the Church na Piasku that was being built at that
time, Jadwiga noticed that one of the builders was very sad.
She asked him for the reason and learnt that he had no
money for the physician to bring relief to his very ill wife.
The Queen promised to help: she set her foot on a stone,
removed the golden clasp from her slipper, and offered it to
the stonemason.
When she left, the workers noticed that pressed in the
stone, as if in soft clay, was the trace of her foot.
Together they used their chisels to remove the stone from
the ground, and carved on it the date of the event – AD