Margaret of Hungary
A princess of Hungary, vowed to God by her parents even before her birth, she was entrusted as a small child to the Dominican nuns and lived, in a monastery on an island in the Danube, a life of austerity and prayer.
- Middle Ages
- Hungary
- Feast day January 18
- † 1270
- Virgin
- Nun
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Born a royal princess of Hungary, daughter of King Béla IV, Margaret was dedicated to God by her parents for the salvation of the kingdom during the Mongol invasion. She entered the Dominican convent on the Isle of the Virgin (now Margaret Island) in Budapest at a very young age, where she lived a life of humility, rigorous asceticism, and deep piety, refusing royal marriages to remain faithful to her vows.
