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St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Feast 17 November

Queen who became a servant. The roses in the cloak.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Elizabeth of Hungary is the image this library has of Elizabeth. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Died 1231 at twenty-four. Third Order Franciscan. Hospitals. The legend of the roses is how a kingdom remembered that bread for the poor is not a metaphor.