 On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.The Pope went on to canonize Jadwiga in Kraków on 8 June 1997.Queen Jadwiga is the main character of the third season of Polish historical TV series Korona królów (The Crown of the Kings).