Who is the greatest married saint?

[Saint_Gemma]

What about St. Elizabeth of Hungary?

 

[Saint_Gemma]

Mary, Mother of God, is herself clearly the greatest married saint.

There’s a whole book full of them: Married Saints and Blesseds Through the Centuries by Ferdinand Holböck (Ignatius Press), amazon.com/Married-Saints-Blesseds-Through-Centuries/dp/0898708435/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197379866&sr=1-1 .

I do not count the Blessed Virgin Mary, because she was, well, a virgin. I think that the OP was looking for Saints who were in non-Josephite marriages.

 

[jazzbaby1]

Not sainted yet, but there’s the very patient Blessed Anna Maria Taigi.

 

[roanoker]

St. Elizabeth of Russia was married to the Arch Duke of Russia. She is the one who someone on this forum pointed out that habitually used the acronym “Xmas” for Christmas…which was sort of comforting to me. I was always afraid it was sacreligious to use it…

 

[fin]

yes, St Therese’s parents are very saintly.

St. Bridget of Sweden
St. Rita

 

[RWMorris]

There’s also St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

 

[Sr_Sally]

What about St. Elizabeth of Hungary?

Yes, I thought about her too. My daughter loves her story.

 

[ANGELIC_PEACE]

mother mary and saint joseph

st therese parents (not saints yet but their cause for beatification is ongoing…) all her daughters became nuns…and her children that died the whole family (privately) considered these babies to be saints and st therese and her sisters were encouraged to pray to their brothers/sisters in heaven when they needed something…and what is more amazing about the story was their prayers were answered…st therese asked god that all her children would become nuns and priests…so the boys and girls that died as babys if they had survived they probably could have been priest/nuns too

ANGELIC PEACE

ANGELIC PEACE

 

[johnstown_johnn]

Elizabeth Ann Seton. She was a Protestant and married to an ambassador II think) to Italy. It was there she converted to Catholicism after her husband’s untimely death.

After her conversion she started an order of nuns in Emittsburg, MD.

 

[uglygal]

St Joseph!!!

 

[johnstown_johnn]

Yes absolutely. His first wife died while his daughter was just a little baby. He re-married almost immediately to a widow with young children of her own. Dame Alice was even a bit older than he was. They were happily married for many, many years.

There was also a couple recently beautified (if not cannonized) who were recognized specifically as a married couple and for the example they gave as as a couple. Does anyone remember their names? Going off to search now…

Where do you get this stuff? This is as ridiculous as the “DaVinci Code.” Nowhere is that contained in the Acts of the Apostles or Bible History. Who wrote this…Truman Capote?

 

[TMC]

I do not count the Blessed Virgin Mary, because she was, well, a virgin. I think that the OP was looking for Saints who were in non-Josephite marriages.

I’m not sure what the OP was looking for, but this was my impression, too. I wouldn’t “count” St. Joseph, Elizabeth Seton, Bridget of Sweden, or Edward the Confessor, either. For me, at least, I was thinking of non-celibate people in something like a regular marriage.

For men the best bet, I think, is St. Peter. I believe that he did continue to live a familly life with his wife while leading the early Church. He was Apostle, Pope, and husband. A great role model for married men. For mothers we can’t do much better than Mary (although I just disincluded her form this list) and, of course Monica. I am not sure for wives. What do women think of Monica’s role model as a wife? A lot of disfunction there (none of it hers), does she speak to you? St. Gianna I don’t know much about, but she seems like a good lay role model. What other good married woman/wife role models are out there?

 

[johnstown_johnn]

I’m not sure what the OP was looking for, but this was my impression, too. I wouldn’t “count” St. Joseph, Elizabeth Seton, Bridget of Sweden, or Edward the Confessor, either. For me, at least, I was thinking of non-celibate people in something like a regular marriage.

For men the best bet, I think, is St. Peter. I believe that he did continue to live a familly life with his wife while leading the early Church. He was Apostle, Pope, and husband. A great role model for married men. For mothers we can’t do much better than Mary (although I just disincluded her form this list) and, of course Monica. I am not sure for wives. What do women think of Monica’s role model as a wife? A lot of disfunction there (none of it hers), does she speak to you? St. Gianna I don’t know much about, but she seems like a good lay role model. What other good married woman/wife role models are out there?

Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife and mother of two children before she converted.

 

[Gamera]

My wife. She must be a saint to put up with me.

 

[TMC]

Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife and mother of two children before she converted.

Yes, except I think she had five kids. But she did all of her “Saint stuff” as a celibate after her husband had died. She is a great Saint, but lived more like a religious than lay person during the time she did most of her life works. Again, I don’t know what the OP was looking for, but I was interested in Saints that lived in a ‘regular’ marriage during the time of their works.