Magyar News, 1996. szeptember-1997. augusztus (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1997-07-01 / 11-12. szám
St. Erzsébet among the poor. Fainted by Alexander Linzenmayer ST. ERZSEBET (ELIZABETH) of the House of Arpad - 1207 - 1231 daughter of King Endre II who had issued the Golden Bull in 1222, a document limiting the powers of the king and defending freemen from the barons (as opposed to the Magna Charta, which guaranteed the rights of the barons). As a child. Erzsébet was engaged to the German margrave Louis of Thuringia. After they were married, they had a son and several daughters (one of them. Gertrud of Altenberg, was later beatified). Tlieir marriage was a happy one. Erzsébet had great love for the sick and the poor, feeding the people out of her own means in time of famine, and founding the first public hospitals. Her husband Louis died on his way to the Holy Land. His relatives, who had never sympathized with Erzsebet’s warmhearted generosity, turned the young widow and her children out of Wartburg castle. Erzsébet was now reduced to abject misery, even forced to live in a pigsty for some time, but she did not notify her royal Hungarian relatives. Instead, she supported herself b\ spinning and continued to live a life of great poverty and selfdemal, devoting herself more than ever to the poor and the sick After making arrangements to have her children taken care of, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis. When she died at age 24, miracles began to occur at her tomb immediately. According to one legend. Erzsébet was one day bringing bread to the poor, in her apron, when her husband, understanding though he was, stopped her. He was becoming alarmed at her extreme generosity that was depleting his treasury. When he asked her what she was carrying, she replied, "Roses!” Louis wanted to see them, and when she opened her apron, the bread had indeed turned to roses. ST. MARGIT MARGARET) - 1242-1271 - daughter of King Bela IV. Her parents vowed to dedicate her to God that He might spare the country from the return of the Mongolians who had devastated the country the previous year. Enjoy great home cooking in ^ a warm family^tmosphere at fearl of Jukpest Hungarian and Viennese Cuisine Daily 3-Course Dinner specials Reservations accepted for 4 or more Delicious Hungarian Wines from Open for lunch and dinner 12-2 and 5-9 Tuesday - Saturday. Sunday 5-9 pm. Live Music Every Night In the Galleria Building 57 Unquowa Road * Fairfield Telephone: (203)259-4777 LET ME ASSIST YOU! CALL TODAY! Office phone. 374-0295 Voice mail: 394-5172 Serving Fairfield, Stratford. Monroe Milford Trumbull and Bridgeport Each office is independently owned and operated PART FOUR by Erika Papp Faber At the age of 4, Margit was sent to live among the Dominican Sisters. She spent most of her short life at the convent on an island in the Danube at Buda (present-day Budapest). It is now called Margaret's Island in her honor. Although both the Czech and the Sicilian king vied for her hand, she remained faithful to her father's promise and took her final vows in 1261. Margit led a life of extreme self-discipline, humility and penance. (Her novice mistress had been Blessed Ilona, the only Hungarian stigmatic). She died at the age of 29, and the process of her canonization began soon thereafter, but because of the vicissitudes of history, she was canonized only in 1942, 700 years after her birth! BLESSED KINGA - 1224 - 1292 - Eldest daughter of King Bela IV, sister of St. Margit. She took a vow of virginity, but her parents married her to the Polish king Boleslav the Chaste. They lived like brother and sister. She opened the first salt mines in Poland with the help of miners brought from Hungary. On the death of her husband, Kinga joined the sisters of St. Clare, and was elected abbess of the convent which was several times besieged by Mongolians. Her younger sister. Blessed Jolantajoined her there, and she lived a life of self-denial, prayer and chanty. BLESSED JOLANTA - 1235 or 1239 - 1298 - Youngest daughter of King Bela IV. She married Boleslav the Pious, Prince of Pomerania. She lived an exemplary Christian married life, had three children, and when bad councillors turned her husband against her, she patiently prayed for his change of heart. She spent her days doing penance and doing good, caring for the sick, the orphans and the poor. When her husband had to go to war, she redoubled her prayers that he might not give in to ruthlessness or revenge. When he died, she joined her sister Blessed Kinga in the convent of St. Clare. THINKING ABOUT BUYING OR SELLING? LET JIM MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE! ^ I GREENGARDEN REALTY, INC. JIM BALLAS St. Erzsébet. XIII Century fresco in Italy Page 7
