More Questions than Answers - Multiple Saints Quiz

Answer: St. Elizabeth

According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth when the latter had been pregnant for six months. Elizabeth greeted Mary with the words "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" - a key part in the prayer "Hail Mary".
Elizabeth bore a son named John, and a few months later Mary bore Jesus. When both these sons were adults, John lived near the river Jordan and baptized anyone who came to that end.
St. Elizabeth is patron saint to pregnant women.

Answer: St. Catherine

St. Catherine of Alexandria was born about 282 in Alexandria, Egypt. Around 305, Emperor Diocletian started a fierce prosecution of Christians, because they would not venerate the traditional Roman deities. Catherine was one of the Christians rounded up in Egypt and condemned to die a painful death: she would be tied up to a wheel and her limbs would be broken. However, when she was about to be tied upon the wheel, it miraculously broke. So Catherine was beheaded instead.
St. Catherine of Alexandria is patroness of all craftsmen who use a wheel, for instance potters or spinners.

Answer: St. Augustine

St. Augustine was born in 354 in Tagaste, nowadays Souk Ahras in Algeria. During his rhetoric studies, Augustine took up a quite licentious life, indulging in the vices that are today frequently associated with students (alcohol abuse, extramarital affairs). But when he was appointed teacher of rhetoric in Milan, he repented and soon converted to Christianity. He was ordained a priest in 391 and rose to coadjutor of the Bishop of Hippo (today Annaba, a harbour town in Algeria). When the Bishop died, Augustine held the see of Hippo during about 35 years, until his death in 430.
St. Augustine is best known for his books: "Confessiones", in which he repents of the sins he committed during his youth, and "De Civitate Dei" ("The City of God").
St. Augustine is patron saint of brewers, perhaps because he was one of the most avid supporters of local breweries during his youth.

Answer: St. Augustine

St. Augustine was born in Rome, probably around 533 - but his birth year is heavily disputed. He was prior of a Roman monastery, when Pope Gregory I chose a few dozen legates to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine converted King Ethelbert of Kent, and so paved the way to mass conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.
St. Augustine died in 605.

Answer: Saint Bernard

This particular Saint Bernard was born into the Florentine leading noble family of the Uberti. Saint Bernard degli Uberti, as is his full name, has been portrayed by some of the early Renaissance painters, such as Pietro Perugino.
The life of Saint Bernard degli Uberti is not very well documented. His date of birth is unknown, nor the date when he entered monastic life. In 1097 he became abbot of Vallombrosa (a small town in Tuscany, Italy). Besides his occupation as abbot and bishop, he also was appointed Cardinal and papal legate.

Answer: Saint Bernard

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon (France), into one of the most influential of the local noble families. He aspired a literary career. In 1113 Bernard entered the monastery of Clairvaux, a Cistercian monastery near Dijon. Bernard soon was appointed abbot of this monastery and started to rewrite the monastic rule. Bernard died in 1153.
The Cistercian Order of Strict Observance (better known under the nickname "Trappists", after one of their major monasteries) was the result of this reform by Saint Bernard. Rumour has it that these religious people have vowed to keep silent, but this is not quite exact. The Cistercians keep away from any "empty" conversation, but they may speak on some occasions, for example when it would be highly appropriate to do so in order to get a job done.
Saint Bernard is patron saint of his birth region, Burgundy in France.

Answer: St. Elizabeth

St. Elizabeth of Hungary was born in 1207, near Bratislava (nowadays Slovakia). At age fourteen, she married Louis, prince of Thuringia (Germany), who ascended to the throne later in the same year.
A legation of Franciscan friars arriving in Thuringia in 1223 inspired Elizabeth to devote her life to the Franciscan ideals. She was thus one of the first members outside Italy of the lay branch of the Franciscan order (also known as the Third Order of Saint Francis - the first order are the monks, the second order are the nuns).
St. Elizabeth gave a large amount of her possessions to charity, even so much that she was accused of squandering her dowry.
St. Elizabeth died in 1231 in Marburg (Germany), where she had founded a hospital. Soon after her death, a number of miraculous healings were reported.

Answer: St. Catherine

St. Catherine of Sweden was born about 1332. When she was twelve years old, she married a nobleman from Swedish and German descent, but she chose not to have the marriage consummated. In 1348, Catherine accompanied her mother Bridget to Rome, and hence they made several pilgrimages to various places (including Jerusalem), notwithstanding the enormous danger that was then related to travelling.
When Saint Bridget founded a convent in the Swedish town Vadstena in 1373, Catherine was appointed abbess of this convent. Saint Catherine died in Sweden in 1381.

Answer: St. Elizabeth

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was born in New York City in 1774, into a bourgeois Protestant family. She married a wealthy import trader when she was nineteen years old, and bore him five children. In 1805, two years after the untimely death of her husband, Elizabeth converted to Roman Catholicism.
In 1809 Elizabeth moved to Maryland. A year later, she founded a Catholic school and a religious order over there.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton died in 1821.

Answer: St. Catherine

St. Catherine Labouré was born in Burgundy, France in 1806. She joined the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1830, St. Catherine saw a vision of the Virgin Mary, standing upon a globe. Mary asked Catherine to have produced a medal with an image of Mary standing upon this globe, with the text (in French, but I'll give here the translation) "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee".

The obverse is showing the capital letter M intertwined with a cross, surrounded by twelve stars, and posed upon two hearts: a heart crowned with thorns (the Sacred Heart of Jesus) and a heart stabbed by a sword (the Immaculate Heart of Mary). Saint Catherine Labouré died in 1876.

In 1933, upon exhumation, her body was found to be still intact.