Elizabeth of Hungary
Catholic saint (1207−1231) · Hungary · Business Professionals · Died at 24
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Something wrong?A medieval Hungarian princess who married at 14, was widowed at 20, and dead by 24 - yet left a legacy solid enough to make her a Catholic saint four years later. She spent her brief adult life building a hospital with her dowry and working in it herself, turning royal blood into something closer to radical mercy.
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Marburg Elisabethkirche Elisabethschrein Elisabethfigur
Binnenzijde linker vleugel van een altaarstuk met het huwelijksfeest van de heilige Elisabeth en Lodewijk van Thüringen, SK-A-3145_b_489.jpg?width=1200)
Die Gartenlaube (1897) b 489
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Elisabeth van Hongarije met wapenschild in rolwerk omlijsting Vrouwelijke Negen Besten (serietitel), RP-P-OB-8617
Elisabeth van Hongarije, BK-NM-1204
Elisabeth von Thuringen as patron saint of a donor, probably Philippa le Clerc du Tremblay 2006 NYR 01620 0021 114947
Elisabeth von Thüringen BaselIn their own words 5
, Here before my eyes is our sweet Saviour crowned with thorns. My crown would mock Him if I dared kneel at His feet bedecked with gold and jewels.
The Lord came all the way from heaven to earth for us, so we can surely go the short distance from the castle to Eisenach for Him! ... We must not sadden God with sullen looks.
The last request of Christ was that we should love one another as He loved us. But are we obeying Him, dear Brother?
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Elizabeth was born 7 July 1207, a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary who became landgravine of Thuringia through marriage. She was 14 at the wedding, 20 when her husband died. What she did next separated her from the script: she took back her dowry and used the money to build a hospital, then served the sick there with her own hands. An early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, she made Christian charity visible in a way that outlasted her short run. She died 17 November 1231 at 24. The Church canonized her 25 May 1235, and she remains the patroness of her Franciscan order.
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