Biography of saint elizabeth of hungary pictures

St. Elizabeth was daughter of the King of Hungary and wife of the Landgrave of Thuringia. She was committed to serving the poor, and upon her husband's death she became a Franciscan tertiary and founded a hospital in which she herself labored.

Narrative images often picture her serving the poor while dressed in a Franciscan habit, as in the first picture at right.

Biography of saint elizabeth of hungary pictures

Saint elizabeth of hungary costumes

Saint elizabeth of hungary school

Interesting facts about st elizabeth of hungary

St elizabeth of hungary miracles

In portraits she often has a basket of bread or flowers, as in the second and third pictures. The flowers refer to a story that hagiographers of the later 13th century commandeered from the life of St. Casilda, whose Saracen father caught her taking a basket of food to Christian prisoners.

When he looked into the basket, he found only roses.1

Being of royal birth, the saint is sometimes pictured with a crown, as in the second picture at right.

ATTRIBUTES

• Bread and/or flowers in a basket or a fold of her mantle
• Crown

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