Which St. Elizabeth? Every Saint Named Elizabeth

Curated and reviewed by Pastor Lyvers

Which St. Elizabeth? 9 saints and blesseds named Elizabeth have full entries in this encyclopedia, counting the name in other languages (Elisabeth). They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, beginning with the first century and then century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. Elizabeth from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist, St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The apostles and the first century

  • St. Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist 1st century · Feast day September 23

    St. Elizabeth was the wife of the priest Zechariah and the mother of St. John the Baptist, whom she bore in her old age (Luke 1).

12th century

  • St. Elizabeth Rose died 1130 · Feast day December 13

    St. Elizabeth Rose (died 1130) was a Benedictine nun of the royal abbey of Chelles who became a hermit in a marshy wood at Rozoy and then founder and first abbess of a monastery there.

  • St. Elizabeth of Schönau c. 1129–1164 · Feast day June 18

    St. Elizabeth of Schönau (about 1129–1164) was a German Benedictine nun at Schönau Abbey, near the Rhine, who from 1152 received visions of Christ, the Virgin Mary, angels and the saints.

13th century

  • St. Elizabeth of Hungary c. 1207–1231 · Feast day November 17

    St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) was a Hungarian princess who married the ruler of Thuringia and spent her fortune on the poor and sick.

14th century

  • St. Elizabeth of Portugal 1271–1336 · Feast day July 4

    St. Elizabeth of Portugal (1271–1336), the Rainha Santa Isabel, was a princess of Aragon who married King Denis of Portugal, spent her wealth on the poor, and more than once rode out to stop wars within her own family.

19th century

  • St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774–1821 · Feast day January 4

    St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774–1821) was a New York wife and mother, widowed at 29, who became a Catholic in 1805 and founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

20th century

  • St. Elizabeth of the Trinity 1880–1906 · Feast day November 8

    St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906), born Élisabeth Catez, was a gifted young pianist from Dijon who became a Discalced Carmelite nun and died of Addison's disease at twenty-six.

  • St. Elisabeth Feodorovna 1864–1918 · Feast day July 18

    St. Elisabeth Feodorovna (1864–1918) was a German princess who married Grand Duke Sergei of Russia and became Orthodox.

21st century

  • St. Elizabeth of Pasărea 1970–2014 · Feast day June 5

    St. Elizabeth of Pasărea (1970–2014) was a Romanian Orthodox schema-nun of Pasărea Monastery, near Bucharest, who lived for years as a hermit in the Giumalău and Neamț mountains.

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