Hungarian Saints 2

St Laszlo king was the most perfect example of the Hungarian reign ideal, who was the saver of the Christian faith and famous knight. According his legend he saved women from barbers, the rock opened when he escaped from a trap, water was springed from stone. He was who took the initiative in canonisation of St Stephen, St Imre and St Gerardo. Before the first crusade his name came up as a commander, but he dead in 1095. St Laszlo became the ideal of Hungarian soldiers, who run into the battle saying „save us St Laszlo" up to the end of the World War II. St Laszlo was canonised in 1192.

St Elisabeth (Arpadhazi Szent Erzsebet) (1207 - 1231)

We do not know exactly where St Elisabeth was born, in Sarospatak or Obuda or Pozsony, but we known it happened in 1207. She was engaged with count of Turing and she was brought up there. Her husband disapproved of her charity. According to her legend at once she brought bread for beggars in her apron. Her husband followed her and asked what was in her apron. Elisabeth asked help form the God and when she opened her apron there were only a lots of roses. After her husband's death he established a hospital where he nursed poor people. She was canonised already in 1235, because there were known her sanctity.

St Margaret (Arpadhazi Szent Margit) (1242 - 1270)

She was the daughter of King Bela IV, who fought against Tatars in 1241. After the battle of Muhi he escaped and pledged to his next daughter will be a nun. The king had a convent built in the Island of Rabbits near the capital, Buda. This island today known as Margaret Island, it was named after her name. Margaret lived in that convent as a servile maid. She refused many proposes, she became faithful with her oath. She helped the king in some diplomatic trouble as well. Her canonisation procedure had begun in 1276, but not finished until 1943.

St Kinga (Arpadhazi Szent Kinga) (1224 - 1292)

She was sister of St Margaret and became queen of Poland. Kinga and her husband fight against Tatars similar as his father in Hungary. In 1249 she travelled to Hungary to ask salt stones from Maramaros salt mine. Kinga threw her ring into the shaft for salt stones. This ring was found two years later in Wieliczka, Poland, when a new salt-mine was opened. According to this legend the salt moved from Maramaros to Wieliczka. She was beatified in 1690 and canonised in 1999.

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