Ruth

Memorial
1 November
Profile
Old Testament matriarch, and the subject of the canonical Old Testament Book of Ruth. Born to a pagan family, she married a Jewish man. Widowed, she was facing starvation when her mother-in-law, Naomi, urged her to return to her own people. But Ruth declared that the people of God were now her people, their God her God, and she returned to Israel. She married Boaz, and became a mother. Her great-grandson was King David, and further down the family tree was Jesus.
Name Meaning
the compassionate, beautiful friend (hebrew)
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Representation
woman gleaning a well-harvested field of grain
Additional Information
Book of Ruth, New Amercian Bible

Print References
Dictionary of Patron Saints, by Thomas W Sheehan
New American Bible

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Readings
Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! for wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

- Ruth 1:16, NAB