Close to the hidden Jesus

 

St Elizabeth of Hungary, when she was a little girl and used to play about the palace with her companions, 

would always pick a spot near the chapel

so that every now and then, without being noticed,

she might stop by the chapel door, kiss the lock,

and say to Jesus,

"My Jesus, I am playing, but I am not forgetting You.

Bless me and my companions. Goodbye."


 

 

St Elizabeth of Hungary

Secular Franciscan Order
1207-1231

FEAST DAY - November 17

 

The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
by Edmund Blair Leighton (1895)

 

"How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!"  - St Elizabeth of Hungary

Sta Elizabeth of Hungary, ora pro nobis!