St Elizabeth of Hungary d Nov 17 1231 at 24. Betrothed as a child to the prince of Thuringia, she went on to have a happy marriage and bore 3 children. But her in-laws disapproved of her piety and inordinate charity toward the poor and sick. She nursed lepers with her own hands.

When her husband died, they drove Elizabeth from the castle in the middle of the night, carrying only her newborn baby. She found shelter in a pig-shed. She supported herself by spinning and fishing and continued visiting the sick in the hospices she had endowed.