Elizabeth of Hungary, was born in 1207, the daughter of a king of Hungary, and was given in marriage to Louis iv, Landgrave of Thuringia, with whom she had three children.
Theirs was a happy marriage but her husband of four years died of the plague. Elizabeth was driven from the court and she settled in Marburg, where her confessor was Conrad of Marburg, whose domineering and almost sadistic ways exemplified one who had himself been a successful inquisitor of heretics.
She suffered mental and physical abuse from him, in the name of religious austerity, but bore it all humbly becoming a member of the Franciscan Third Order, which reflected her life of caring for the poor, even cooking and cleaning for them.
Due to the severe regime under which she lived, her weakened body gave way under the pressure and she died on this day, just twenty-four years old, in the year 1231.
Having read this please keep all who have suffered abuse (in and out of Church) in your prayers especially today.
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