The life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, duchess of Thuringia

CONTENTS. Introduction. vii 1. How Duke Hermann reigned in Thuringia, and King Andrew in Hungary, and how the dear St. Elizabeth was born at Presbourg, and was brought to Eisenach, 1 2. How the dear St. Elizabeth honoured God in her Childhood 12 3. How the dear St. Elizabeth had to suffer for God. 18 4. How the young Louis was faithful to the dear St. Elizabeth, and how he married her 23 5. How the Duke Louis, husband of the dear St. Elizabeth, was agreeable to God and man 28 6. How the Duke Louis and the dear St. Elizabeth lived together before God in the holy state of marriage 34 7. How the dear St. Elizabeth practised the virtue of mortification 38 8. Of the great charity of the dear St. Elizabeth, and of her love of poverty 46 9. Of the great devotion and humility of the dear St. Elizabeth 54 10 How the dear St. Elizabeth was known and cherished by the glorious St. Francis, and how she had for spiritual director Master Conrad of Marbourg 61 11. How the Lord was pleased to manifest his grace in the person of the dear St. Elizabeth 72 12. How the Duke Louis protected his poor people 80 13. How a great famine devastated Thuringia, and how the dear St. Elizabeth practised all the works of mercy 85 14. How Duke Louis returned to his wife, and how he rendered true justice to his dear monks of Beinhartsbrunn, 93 15. How the good Duke Louis took up the Cross, and of the great grief wherewith he bade farewell to his friends, his family and the dear St. Elizabeth 99 16. How Duke Louis died on his way to the Holy Land 113 17. How the dear St. Elizabeth heard of the death of her husband, and of her great agony and tribulation 118 18. How the dear St. Elizabeth was driven out of her castle with her little children, and reduced to extreme misery, and of the great ingratitude of men towards her 122 19. How the All-merciful Jesus consoled the dear St. Elizabeth in her loneliness and misery, and how the sweet and most clement Virgin Mary came to instruct and fortify her 20. How