Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity

Feast Day

8 November; 9 November on some calendars

Born

Sunday 18 July 1880 in a military camp in the diocese of Bourges, France as Elizabeth Catez

Died

9 November 1906 at Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France of Addison’s disease, a hormone disorder whose side effects are painful and exhausting

Canonized

16 October 2016 by Pope Francis; canonization celebrated at Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City, Rome, Italy; the canonization miracle involved the July 2002 healing of a woman from “Sjøgren’s syndrome”, which includes xerostomia, which prevented the woman from eating solid foods, neurogenic bladder condition, and motor impairment; the healing was instant, and occurred when the woman was on pilgrimage to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Dijon where Saint Elizabeth had lived for several years

Beatified

25 November 1984 by Pope John Paul II; the beatification miracle involved the healing of a priest from “genitourinary tuberculosis with right renal tuberculosis, right nephrectomy, in a subject with progressing Pott’s disease” c.1964 through the intercession of Blessed Elizabeth

Venerated

12 July 1982 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)