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Saint Anne, seen here with her daughter Mary, was the wife of Joachim and the grandmother of Jesus. She is the patroness of housewives and grandmothers. Legend has it that Anne was married to Joachim when she was about twenty years old. Despite many attempts she was never able to conceive a child. It wasn't until she was about forty, which was very old for her time, that she conceived the child, Mary. The conception took place after a day of prayer, An angel appeared to Anne and told her that, "She was to have a child, and that she must promise to dedicate this child to God." Anne's Feast day is July 26th. |
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Elizabeth of Hungary is the patron saint of bakers. Elizabeth
was born into a noble family in 1207. She was engaged to be married to a man who
would eventually become a king, Louis IV of Thuringia. Elizabeth was madly in
love with her husband but unlike the nobility of her time, she and her husband
were very generous in sharing the wealth and resources of their kingdom with
those who were poor. Elizabeth was often accused of depleting the storeroom of
the castle in order to help those less fortunate. She is depicted with a cloak
full of roses. The story has it that she was taking fresh bread to the allied
forces when the opposition soldiers came upon her. Fearing for her life, she
prayed to God. The soldiers asked her to open her cloak to prove she had bread.
The cloak was opened, and the bread had turned to roses. God had once again
taken care of her. Elizabeth's Feast day is November 10th, the day of her death.
She died at the young age of twenty-four.
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