The Saint of the 17th November is Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Elizabeth, daughter of the king of Hungary, was born in 1207.

At a very young age she married Louis IV of Thuringia.

Faithful to the duties of his state, he placed his life at the same time at the service of the poor and the sick, distributing his goods and personally treating the lepers.

Her husband died during a crusade, he was unjustly expelled from the castle together with his three children still at an early age.

Elizabeth accepted the new condition of poverty with faith and fortitude, continuing to devote herself with love to the education of children, to the assistance of the sick and to prayer.

Under the spiritual direction of the theologian Corrado of Marburg he entered the Franciscan Tertiary Order and retired to the hospital he had built in 1228 in Marburg, where he lent his work to the care of the sick until his death in 1231 a only 24 years old.

Other saints and celebrations on 17 November

• Saints Acisclo and Vittoria

Martyrs of Cordoba

• Saints Alfio and Zacchaeus

Martyrs



• Sant ’Aniano d’Orleans

Bishop

• San Florin

Priest

Recommended readings
• November 14: saint of the day, name day
• November 16: saint of the day, name day
• November 5: saint of the day, name day
• November 1: saint of the day, name day
• November 25: saint of the day, name day
• San Giordano Ansalone

Dominican priest, martyr

• Saint Gregory of Tours

Bishop

• Saint Gregory the Wonderworker

Bishop

• Sant'Ilda

Abbess

• Blessed Josafat Kocylovskyj

Bishop and martyr

• San Juan Del Castillo

Jesuit martyr

• San Lazzaro

Monaco in Constantinople



• Blessed Wolf Sebastiano Hunot

Martyr

• San Namazio di Vienne

Bishop

• Blessed Salomea from Krakow

Queen of Hungary, abbess

• St. Thomas Hioji Kokuzayemon Nishi

Dominican priest, martyr

St. Nektarios Day (April 2024)