May 7
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
Bl. Gisela of Hungary

Bl. Gisela of Hungary

queen · c. 985 – 1065
The wise woman builds her house.
— Prov 14:1

A Bavarian princess, wife of St. Stephen, the first King of Hungary. She helped spread Christianity in a kingdom that included today's Slovakia. After the deaths of her husband and son she ended her days as abbess in Passau. Even pain can be turned into service.

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