Also known as:
German: Margareta von Ungarn;
St. Margaret of Hungary;
French: Marguerite de Hongrie;
Latin: Margarita Hungariae
MARGHERITA OF HUNGARY, saint. - Color woodcut from the end of the 15th century. At the feet of the Saint is the coat of arms of the Árpád. Esztergom, Primate's Museum.
MARGARET OF HUNGARY, Saint. - Dominican nun, b. at the end of 1242 or the beginning of 1243 to Bela IV, king of Hungary, and to the Greek princess Maria, d. in the monastery of the Isle of Hares on the Danube, near Buda, on 18 Jan. 1270. She emulated the virtues of various members of the Árpád dynasty, among them those of her aunt St. Elizabeth of Thuringia.
At only three and a half years of age she was entrusted to the sisters of St. Catherine of Veszprém to be educated there, and specifically to Sister Olimpiade, a noble widow. Twice she refused her father's proposals of marriage: the first, at the age of 7, to Prince Boleslaus VI Pobozny, it seems; the second, in 1260, to Ottokar, king of Bohemia. In 1252 she was brought, together with other nuns, to the new monastery founded by her parents on the Isle of Hares, dedicated to the B. Virgin Mary. In 1254 she made her profession in the hands of the Master General of the Dominican Order, Humbert of Romans.
It can be historically proved that M. was favored by God with particular supernatural gifts and that she led an extraordinary life of penance and prayer. As for the stigmata attested by the Italian artistic tradition and of which the Neapolitan legend of St. M. speaks (end of the 14th century), neither the ancient life nor the apostolic process of 1276 makes any mention of them.
The popular cult of St. M., already alive before the apostolic process of 1276, became liturgical beginning in the 15th century; after various and laborious attempts for her elevation to the honors of the altars, she was canonized in an equipollent manner by Pius XII, on 19 Nov. 1943 (cf. the decretal letter Maxima inter munera, in AAS, 36 [1944], pp. 33-40). Feast on 18 Jan.
BibliographyInquisitio iustu S.mi Dni Nostri Pii Papae XII peracta de vita b. Margaritas ab Hungaria Sanctiuncialia Ordinis Praedicatorum deque cultu ei
BIBL.:Inquisitio iustu S.mi Dni Nostri Pii Papae XII peracta de vita b. Margaritas ab Hungaria Sanctiuncialia Ordinis Praedicatorum deque cultu ei praestito (S. Rituum Congregatio: Sectio Historica, 50), Città del Vaticano 1943, an exhaustive study of the sources (with the relevant texts) of the life and cult of St. M. by p. F. Antonelli and p. F. Callaey. All the preceding bibliography is also reviewed there.
Frutaz, Amato Pietro. “Margherita d'Ungheria, santa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 72. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-d-ungheria-santa.
MLA
Frutaz, Amato Pietro. “Margherita d'Ungheria, santa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 72. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-d-ungheria-santa.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_margherita_d_ungheria_santa,
author = {Frutaz, Amato Pietro},
title = {Margherita d'Ungheria, santa},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {72},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-d-ungheria-santa}
}
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