Elizabeth, Saint, according to Luke 1 in the New Testament, was the mother of Saint John the Baptist and a kinswoman of Mary. In Luke’s account, when both Elizabeth and her husband, Zechariah, were advanced in years, the angel Gabriel appeared to Zechariah and predicted that his wife would bear a son to be called John. Mary visited her at her home in Judea before the birth of Jesus. Elizabeth’s feast day is November 5 in the Roman Catholic Church and September 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
