{"id":25963,"date":"2010-11-17T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/saint-elizabeth-of-hungary-1\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:45:39","slug":"saint-elizabeth-of-hungary-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/saint-elizabeth-of-hungary-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Elizabeth of Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Elizabeth%20of%20Hungary%20BBruyn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/St Elizabeth of Hungary BBruyn-thumb-285x620-7686.jpg\" alt=\"St Elizabeth of Hungary BBruyn.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><i>Praise to the holy woman whose home is built on faithful love and whose pathway leads to God.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Father, You\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">helped Elizabeth of Hungary to recognize and honor Christ in the poor of this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">world. Let her prayers help us to serve our brothers and sisters in time of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">trouble and need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Saint Elizabeth is the patroness of the Third Order Franciscans (the laity and secular priests). Her example of patience and holiness modeled on the good example of the Franciscan friars leads us to be attentive to the poor in our midst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">In an October address, the Holy Father spoke of today&#8217;s saint:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><i>She behaved to her subjects in the same way that she behaved to God.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><i>Among the <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">Sayings of the four maids,\u00a0<\/span>we find this testimony: &#8220;She did not eat any food before ascertaining that it came from her husband&#8217;s property or legitimate possessions. While she abstained from goods procured illegally, she also did her utmost to provide compensation to those who had suffered violence.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><i>She is a true example for all who have roles of leadership: the exercise of authority, at every level, must be lived as a service to justice and charity, in the constant search for the common good.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><i>Elizabeth diligently practiced works of mercy&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Read the entire address Pope Benedict gave <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/audiences\/2010\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101020_en.html\">on Saint Elizabeth of Hungary<\/a><\/strong> on October 20, 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise to the holy woman whose home is built on faithful love and whose pathway leads to God. Father, You\u00a0helped Elizabeth of Hungary to recognize and honor Christ in the poor of this\u00a0world. Let her prayers help us to serve our brothers and sisters in time of\u00a0trouble and need. \u00a0 Saint Elizabeth is the patroness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/saint-elizabeth-of-hungary-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Elizabeth of Hungary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1770,32121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32870,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963\/revisions\/32870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}