Beth's Name Day

5th November

Beth, the name has a description or meaning which is from the Hebrew, 'God is my satisfaction'

Beth has a Name day of 5th November, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Female usage of the name.

This name is a variant of the original name Elizabeth

There is also an alternative celebration date of 4th January for this Name day and represents different religious interpretations or different festival days for Saints

St Elizabeth is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Elizabeth has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Beths

The first Elizabeth in the Christian calendar was the cousin of Mary, and the mother of St John the Baptist. The story of her miraculous conception of John is told in the first pages of the Gospel according to St Luke, and it mirrors the yet more miraculous birth of Christ. There are other traditions about her and her husband, Zachariah; whatever the truth of them, she is invoked as the patroness of all pregnant women for it was while he was in her womb that John first 'leaped' in joyful recognition of Jesus

There have been many other St Elizabeths since. One was Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, whose unhappy life as wife, mother and queen was matched only by that of her great-niece, Queen Elizabeth of Portugal. Elizabeth of Hungary is remembered for her unceasing charity to the poor in spite of her husband's opposition and then, after his death, her own poverty. She died at the age of 24 in 1231. Her symbols are three crowns (as virgin, wife and widow) and roses, a basket of bread, a baby in a cradle, a distaff, and bread and wine. Her feast day is on 19 November. A later Elizabeth was the first American-born to be canonized. Elizabeth Bayley Seton was born in 1774, was married and the mother of five children. Before her husband's death she founded a Protestant charity for women and children; after he died she became a Roman Catholic and founded a girls' school. She then became 'Mother Seton', the Mother Superior of a new Order of nuns called the Daughters of Charity of St Joseph.