10 St. Elizabeth of Hungary Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 17, 2015)

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10 St. Elizabeth of Hungary Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 17, 2015) 2015-11-17T16:25:46-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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For her feast: this 6+ foot tall statue, with relic, of St Elizabeth of Hungary lives in our building's library. pic.twitter.com/bW4xoa2QI8

— Matt Swaim (@mattswaim) November 17, 2015

The castle of Wartburg in Thuringia where St Elizabeth of Hungary lived and opened her first hospital https://t.co/1VIMIRvQQe

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) November 17, 2015

3. From the Liturgy of the Hours today, from her spiritual director, Conrad of Marburg:

From this time onward Elizabeth’s goodness greatly increased. She was a lifelong friend of the poor and gave herself entirely to relieving the hungry. She ordered that one of her castles should be converted into a hospital in which she gathered many of the weak and feeble. She generously gave alms to all who were in need, not only in that place but in all the territories of her husband’s empire. She spent all her own revenue from her husband’s four principalities, and finally she sold her luxurious possessions and rich clothes for the sake of the poor.
Twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, Elizabeth went to visit the sick. She personally cared for those who were particularly repulsive; to some she gave food, to others clothing; some she carried on her own shoulders, and performed many other kindly services. Her husband, of happy memory, gladly approved of these charitable works. Finally, when her husband died, she sought the highest perfection; filled with tears, she implored me to let her beg for alms from door to door.
On Good Friday of that year, when the altars had been stripped, she laid her hands on the altar in a chapel in her own town, where she had established the Friars Minor, and before witnesses she voluntarily renounced all worldly display and everything that our Savior in the gospel advises us to abandon. Even then she saw that she could still be distracted by the cares and worldly glory which had surrounded her while her husband was alive. Against my will she followed me to Marburg. Here in the town she built a hospice where she gathered together the weak and the feeble. There she attended the most wretched and contemptible at her own table.
Apart from those active good works, I declare before God that I have seldom seen a more contemplative woman. When she was coming from private prayer, some religious men and women often saw her face shining marvelously and light coming from her eyes like the rays of the sun.
Before her death I heard her confession. When I asked what should be done about her goods and possessions, she replied that anything which seemed to be hers belonged to the poor. She asked me to distribute everything except one worn out dress in which she wished to be buried. When all this had been decided, she received the body of our Lord. Afterward, until vespers, she spoke often of the holiest things she had heard in sermons. Then, she devoutly commended to God all who were sitting near her, and as if falling into a gentle sleep, she died.

Reading through St. Elizabeth of Hungary's remarkable life, it's almost unbelievable that she died at the age of 24 https://t.co/KH4hCktOxe

— Gretchen Crowe (@GretchenOSV) November 17, 2015

St. Elizabeth of Hungary inspires us to love the poor: https://t.co/RN5DvYUueC #love #Givelove

— Donna-Marie CO'Boyle (@DonnaMarieCOB) November 17, 2015

3rd saint of the day: St Elizabeth of Hungary, whose statue stands in the north transept @MarysShrine https://t.co/zNOjJWWiB2

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) November 17, 2015

7. Today’s Mass readings.

8. St. Elizabeth of Hungary from St. Elizabeth’s School in upper Manhattan:

St Elizabeth of Hungary was a princess. But her life was not without struggle. Read more here https://t.co/CjdFbMZjPd

— Bp Curtis Guillory (@BishopGuillory) November 17, 2015

10.

St. Elizabeth Hungary As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me Mat 25:40 pic.twitter.com/wuI0PJSZJu

— Diocesan Priest (@diocesanpriest) November 17, 2015

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