Santa Elisabetta d'Ungheria

Portrait of the Saint SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, THE PRINCESS OF CHARITY Daughter of Andrew, king of Hungary, and Gertrude, noblewoman of Merano, she was still a girl promised in marriage to Louis, son and heir of the sovereign of Thuringia. She married at fourteen, became a mother at fifteen, and was widowed at 20. She gave everything to the poor and retired to Marburg in Germany in a hospital she founded, embracing poverty and working to care for the sick and the poor until her last breath at the age of twenty-five.