SAINT FEAST DAY 18 JUNE: ST ELIZABETH OF SCONAUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 18th of June

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SAINT ELIZABETH OF SCONAUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS

Three monasteries in Germany bear the name of Sconauge [Schönau]: one of Cistercian monks near Heidelberg, founded by Buggo, bishop of Worms in 1135; another of nuns of the same Order in Franconia; a third of monks of the Order of Saint Benedict in the diocese of Triers, four German miles from Bingen, was founded by Hildelin, a nobleman, who, in 1125, took himself the monastic habit, and was chosen first abbot. 

SHE WAS CHOSEN ABBESS

Not far distant he built a great nunnery of the same Order and name which is now extinct, though the three former remain to this day. Soon after the foundation of this house, when regular discipline flourished there with great edification to the church, St Elizabeth, who from her infancy had been a vessel of election, made her religious profession, and was afterwards chosen abbess. At twenty-three years of age she began to be favoured with heavenly visions. She died in the year 1165, of her age thirty-six, on June 18, on which day her name is inserted in the Roman Martyrology, though she was never solemnly beatified, as Chatelain takes notice. 

From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Elizabeth may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.