Solemnidad de la Sansima Trinidad Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity June 7th, 2020 Saint of the Month St. Elizabeth of the Trinity by Carl Bunderson,catholicnewsagency.com,2016 Vatican City, Jun 21, 2016 / 03:03 am MT ().- Pope Francis has announced the canonization date of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun of the 20th century who will be formally recognized as a saint October 16. In March, the Pope had acknowledged a miracle worked through the interces- sion of Blessed Elizabeth, paving the way for her canonization. “The Lord has chosen to answer her prayers for us…before she died, when she was suffering with Addison's disease, she wrote that it would increase her joy in heaven if people ask for her help,” said Dr. Anthony Lilles, academic dean of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo. Lilles earned his doctorate in spiritual theology at Rome's Angelicum writing a dissertation on Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity. “If her friends ask for her help it would increase her joy in heaven: so it increases Elizabeth's joy when you ask her to pray for your needs,” he told CNA. "That's the first reason (to have devotion to her): the Church has recognized the power of her intercession." Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity was born in France in 1880, and grew up in Dijon close to the city's Carmelite monastery. Lilles recounted that when one time when Bl. Elizabeth visited the monastery when she was 17, “the mother superior there said, 'I just received this circular letter about the death of Therese of Lisieux, and I want you to read it.' That circular letter would later become the Story of a Soul; in fact, what she was given was really the first edition of Story of a Soul.” “Elizabeth read it and she was inclined towards contemplative prayer; she was a very pious person who worked with troubled youth and catechized them, but when she read Story of a Soul she knew she needed to be- come a Carmelite: it was a lightning moment in her life, where everything kind of crystallized and she understood how to respond to what God was doing in her heart.” Elizabeth then told her mother she wanted to enter the Carmel, but she replied that she couldn't enter until she was 21, “which was good for the local Church,” Lilles explained, “because Elizabeth continued to work with troubled youth throughout that time, and do a lot of other good work in the city of Dijon before she entered. ” She entered the Carmel in Dijon in 1901, and died there in 1906 – at the age of 26 – from Addison's disease.
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Solemnidad de la Santísima Trinidad Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity June 7th, 2020
Saint of the Month St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
by Carl Bunderson,catholicnewsagency.com,2016
Vatican City, Jun 21, 2016 / 03:03 am MT ().- Pope Francis has announced
the canonization date of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun of
the 20th century who will be formally recognized as a saint October 16. In
March, the Pope had acknowledged a miracle worked through the interces-
sion of Blessed Elizabeth, paving the way for her canonization. “The Lord
has chosen to answer her prayers for us…before she died, when she was
suffering with Addison's disease, she wrote that it would increase her joy in
heaven if people ask for her help,” said Dr. Anthony Lilles, academic dean
of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo. Lilles earned his doctorate in spiritual
theology at Rome's Angelicum writing a dissertation on Bl. Elizabeth of the
Trinity. “If her friends ask for her help it would increase her joy in heaven: so it increases Elizabeth's joy when
you ask her to pray for your needs,” he told CNA. "That's the first reason (to have devotion to her): the Church has
recognized the power of her intercession."
Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity was born in France in 1880, and grew up in Dijon close to the city's Carmelite
monastery. Lilles recounted that when one time when Bl. Elizabeth visited the monastery when she was 17, “the
mother superior there said, 'I just received this circular letter about the death of Therese of Lisieux, and I want you
to read it.' That circular letter would later become the Story of a Soul; in fact, what she was given was really the
first edition of Story of a Soul.”
“Elizabeth read it and she was inclined towards contemplative prayer; she was a very pious person who
worked with troubled youth and catechized them, but when she read Story of a Soul she knew she needed to be-
come a Carmelite: it was a lightning moment in her life, where everything kind of crystallized and she understood
how to respond to what God was doing in her heart.”
Elizabeth then told her mother she wanted to enter the Carmel, but she replied that she couldn't enter until
she was 21, “which was good for the local Church,” Lilles explained, “because Elizabeth continued to work with
troubled youth throughout that time, and do a lot of other good work in the city of Dijon before she entered.” She
entered the Carmel in Dijon in 1901, and died there in 1906 – at the age of 26 – from Addison's disease.