Saint Elizabeth
![[painting of Saint Elizabeth]](sainte58.jpg "jpg painting of Saint Elizabeth being visited by the Virgin Mary; artist unknown; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Memorial
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5 November (Latin Church)
8 September (Greek Church)
- Profile
- Descendant of the Old Testament patriarch, Aaron.
Wife of Zachary, temple priest.
Relative of Mary.
Mother of Saint John the Baptist, becoming pregnant very late in life.
She was the Elizabeth that Mary visited soon after the Annunciation.
Described in the Gospel of Luke as "righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly."
- Born
- 1st century BC
- Died
- 1st century AD of natural causes
- Name Meaning
- worshiper of God
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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expectant mothers
Fulda, Germany, diocese of
pregnant women
- Representation
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elderly woman holding the infant John the Baptist
pregnant woman with the Virgin Mary
in company of Saint Zachary
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Charles L Souvay
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Lives of the Saints, by John J Crawley
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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