Today's Saint: Elizabeth of Hungary

Continuing his series of lessons on the great female figures of the Church in the Middle Ages, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his General Audience of October 20, 2010 to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day is November 17. We see in this holy woman, the Holy Father said, “how faith and friendship with Christ create the sense of justice, of the equality of everyone, of the rights of others, and they create love, charity. And from this charity hope is born, the certainty that we are loved by Christ and that the love of Christ awaits us and thus makes us capable of imitating Christ and of seeing Christ in others. St. Elizabeth invites us to rediscover Christ, to love him, to have faith and thus find true justice and love, as well as the joy that one day we will be immersed in divine love, in the joy of eternity with God.”

St. Elizabeth of Hungary, pray for us

that the love of Christ may impel us

to live, love and serve as you did!