Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Elizabeth of Hungary
- Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop and confessor
- Dionysius of Alexandria, bishop
- Alphaeus and Zachaeus, martyrs
- Acislus and Victoria, martyrs
- Anianus or Aignan of Orleans, bishop
- Gregory of Tours, bishop
- Hilda, virgin
- Hugh of Lincoln, bishop
St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231 A.D.) was the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary. At the age of fourteen she was married to Duke Louis IV of Thuringia who died while on a crusade. A widow at 20 with three children, she was expelled from the castle by the relatives of her husband. It was at this time that St. Elizabeth of Hungary decided to become a Franciscan Tertiary, founded a hospital where she worked and ministered to the sick until she died at the early age of 24 years old.
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