Talk:Elizabeth
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[edit] Additional Feast Days
For Roman Catholics, the feast day of St. Elisabeth of Hungary is November 17; Lutherans and Episcopalians celebrate her feast day on November 19.
[edit] Feast Day
Feast day in latin church on november 5,in the greek church it is september 8
[edit] Regnant
On the page is states: "Two Queens regnant of England and the United Kingdom:" and then lists Elizabeth I of England as one of the Queen regnants. Am I misunderstanding this, or is it simply putting her under the section of U.K. monarchs? The way I'm reading it, I interpret it as saying Elizabeth was a Regnant, but she was a Queen in her own right
- Regnant means a full monarch. Queens are divided into Queens regnant (monarch) and Queens consort (wife of monarch). Aaron McDaid (talk - contribs) 14:23, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] wife of Aaron or mother of John the Baptist
a huge percentage of (now) traditional English names come from Hebrew via the Christian bible (via Latin via Greek language). So, this article said in the opening paragraph that Elizabeth came from the Old Testament name of Aaron's wife Elisheva. IIRC, most Chrisitians were naming their children after saints when the name Elizabeth entered the culture, and so I changed the paragraph to suggest Elisheva, the mother of John the Baptist first. Since both Elishevas are by happy coincidence from the house of Aaron, I connected them. If someone knows this particular history better than I, they can fix it.
