Elizabeth of Hungary
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Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231) was a princess of Hungary and a Catholic saint.
Elisabeth was married at the age of fourteen, widowed at twenty, relinquished her wealth to the poor, built hospitals, and became a symbol of Christian charity in Germany and elsewhere after her death at the age of twenty-four.
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See also
- St Elizabeth of Hungary's Great Act of Renunciation (1891) by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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