SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY
S.Elisabeth Hungariae
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Elizabeth was born in the year 1207, the daughter of Andrew, King of Hungary. Given in marriage while still a child to Louis, Landgrave of Thuringia, she bore him three children. Intent on heavenly contemplation, after her husband's death she embraced poverty. She founded a hospital where she herself served the sick. She died at Marburg in the year 1231. She was a canonized by Gregory IX in 1235.