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Elizabeth
(God is an oath
- Exodus 6:23).
Zachary's wife and John the Baptist's mother; was of the daughters of Aaron
(Luke 1:5), and, at the same time, Mary's kinswoman (Luke 1:36), although what
their actual relationship was, is unknown. St. Hippolytus (in Niceph. Call.,
Hist. Eccles., II, iii) explains that Sobe and Anna, their mothers, were sisters,
and that Sobe had married a son of Levi
. Whether this indication, probably
gathered from some apocryphal writings, and later on adopted by the compilers of
the Greek Menologium, is correct, cannot be ascertained. Elizabeth, like Zachary,
was just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the
Lord without blame
(Luke 1:6). She had been deprived, however, of the blessings
of motherhood until, at an advanced age, a son was promised her by the Angel
Gabriel (Luke 1:8-20). When, five months later, Elizabeth was visited in her
home by the Virgin Mary, not only was her son sanctified in her womb, but she
herself was enlightened from on high to salute her cousin as the mother of my
Lord
(Luke 1:43). According to some modern critics, we should even attribute to
her the canticle Magnificat
. After the birth and circumcision of John the
Baptist, the Gospels do not mention Elizabeth any more. Her feast is celebrated
on 8 September by the Greeks, and 5 November in the Latin Church.
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