SAINT
saint-margaret-of-hungary
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Margaret of Hungary, OP was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and, through her father, the niece of the famed Elizabeth of Hungary. She also had an older sister with the same name, who died before she was born.
feast Day
01-18
birth Date
27 January 1242
death Date
1270-01-18
canonization Status
canonized
canonization Date
19 November 1943
canonized By
Pope Pius XII
feast Month
1
feast Day Of Month
18

