July 4
Saints of the Day
 

Saint Elisabeth Queen of Portugal, 1271-1336, The Peacemaker; Isabel of Portugal
Married at 12 with a King, the peacemaker among kings and a holy woman

    Queen at age 12 with two children. Peacemaker among Kings while her husband was a well known adulterous with several illegitimate children and eventually was converted.

    She was able to establish for herself a pattern of life conducive to growth in God’s love, not merely through her exercises of piety, including daily Mass, but also through her exercise of charity, by which she was able to befriend and help pilgrims, strangers, the sick, the poor...

    Widowed in 1325. After the king's death, she distributed her property to the poor, became a Franciscan tertiary, and retired to a monastery of Poor Clares she had founded at Coimbra.

Born 1271 at Aragon, Spain

Died 4 July 1336 at Estremoz of fever; buried at Coimbra; miracles reported at her tomb

Canonized 24 June 1625 by Pope Urban VIII

Additional Information

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainte07.htm
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1434 

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