Feast Day: November 17
Born: 1207 at Presburg, Hungary
Died: 17 November 1231, Marburg, Germany
Canonized: 1235, Perugia, Italy
Major Shrine: Elisabeth Church (Marburg)
Patron of: hospitals, nurses, bakers, brides, countesses, dying children, exiles, homeless people, lacemakers, tertiaries and widows
Saturday, November 17
Liturgical Color: White
Today is the Memorial of St. Elizabeth of
Hungary, religious. Against the advice of her
family, she built a hospital near her home where
she tended the sick. She said she could only
follow the teaching of Christ, not the opinion of
her family.