Alright I noticed that I have little time to do this everyday so, I will be making Saint history once a week.

God Bless,
Nikita

11/17

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary. She was married at the age of fourteen to Ludwig IV. She was very charitable at an early age and Ludwig saw nothing wrong with this. But, when she was twenty years old Ludwig IV died. It was said that when she heard that he died she said: “He is dead, He is dead. It is to me as if the whole world died today.”

From the time on she made vows to be touched by another man and pretty much the vows a nun would.  And when her family tried to force her to remarry Saint Elizabeth held her vows tightly and even claimed to cut off her nose.

During this time she became a part of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She relinquished her dowry to give way to build a hospital (which was built in Marburg) and gave the money to the sick and the poor.

Unfortunately, at the tender age of twenty-four she died. Many are unsure what caused her death, but since then she has been the symbol for Christian Charity.

A little trivial thing is her youngest child, which she had three. But, the youngest was born after her father’s death (Elizabeth found out she was a few weeks pregnant) became an abbess of the convent of Altenberg near Wetzlar.

11/18

Saint Rose Philippine Duchesene (1769-1852) was the daughter of a lawyer and prominent civic leader. Rose joined the Visitation Nuns at age nineteen. She established a school for poor children and cared for the sick.  She hid priests from Revolutionaries and was teaching the Pottawatomie (English and Catholicism). At the end of her life she was called by the Pottawatomie as the “Woman-Who-Prays-Always”.

11/19

Saint Barlaam (+304) was a martyr of Caesarea. He was arrested for being Christian and was commended to be scarf iced to the pagan deities. Before he was slain he lost his hand in hot coals of incense. This was because he would not save himself pain by a Howling the coal on an idol (which was the sprinkling of coal)

Blessed John Benefatti (+1332) there is very little about him. All that is known that I could look up is that he was an Italian man that became a bishop of Mantua. And he was known for his prudent administrative abilities.

11/20

Saint Bernward (960-1022) was a member of a noble Saxon family. Yet he was orphaned at a young age and raised by his uncle Volkmar, who was the bishop of Utrecht. He followed his uncle footsteps and was ordained as a priest in Mainz.

Bernward became the imperial Chaplain and Tutor to Emperor Otto III.  And soon after he became the Bishop of Hildesheim; during this time as bishop he encouraged the arts. He commissioned religious sculptures, paintings, refurbished of old parishes, and building of new ones where the alter vessels of gold and silver were done by hand.

Bernward died in 1022 in a Benedictine monastery. He retired in 1020 as Bishop of Hildesheim.

11/22

Saint Cecilia (+230/250?) is the patron saint of musicians and music. She is one of the seven (excluding the Blessed Virgin) commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. Cecilia is a martyr.

Her martyrdom was for her following of her husband, Valerian and brother, Thateus. She was arrested by officers who laid out a punishment. It started with overheating her in a bathhouse. Since that did not work, they beheaded her, or tried to. 

Seven times they tried and she would not die. It was by the sword that she died. Even then she survived all the punishment they gave her and so she died after three days later in her cell.

Saint Cecilia long after her death she was found with her body incorruptible.