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Wed 18 February 2009
Elizabeth Servant of the Poor
Trial and Triumph - Elizabeth Servant of the Poor (1207 - 1231)
She gave to the poor since there was a famine in the land. She started a hospital for the poor. Then, when word of the famine reached her husband, who was off fighting, he came back. He came back and helped her.
She went to the church and gave God her son right after he was born. After her husband died they kicked her out of the castle with nothing. They [Elizabeth, her four children and two servants] went to a town and asked people if they could stay in their home. Someone allowed them to stay with their pigs in a barn.
She left the pigs and went to a church. She stayed there begging for awhile. She was given some money but gave it to the poor. Then her father [an ambassador from her father] came and wanted to bring her back. She would not go.
She got a fever and died very young. She was only 24. |
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