BLESSED ELIZABETH OF KATHARINENTAL, VIRGIN - 30 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 30th of June

BLESSED ELIZABETH OF KATHARINENTAL, VIRGIN

Blessed Elizabeth (Elisabeth), at the age of 14, joined the Dominican monastery of Katharinental (near Diesenhofen on the Rhine), where she led an extremely austere life and died happily in the Lord in the fourteenth century. (Mur. Helv. Scta.)

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 46)

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of the blessed 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.