Catholic Saint
St. Margaret of Hungary
“A Hungarian princess who willingly embraced a life of extreme penance and prayer as a Dominican nun.”
Feast Day: January 18
Biography
St. Margaret was a daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary who was offered to God as a child in thanksgiving for the country's deliverance from the Mongol invasion. She entered a Dominican convent on an island in the Danube (now Margaret Island, Budapest) and chose to live a life of extreme penance, refusing all offers of marriage from European royalty.
Prayer to St. Margaret of Hungary
I would rather die than leave my convent.