19th Week of Ordinary Time C – Saturday – Memorial of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Today the Church celebrates Saint Stephen of Hungary, the first King of Hungary and a man whose leadership was rooted deeply in faith. Born around the year 975, Stephen was baptized as a child when his father, a Hungarian chieftain, embraced Christianity. He married Gisela, the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor, and in the year 1000 was crowned king—receiving his crown from Pope Sylvester II as a sign of both political and spiritual authority.