Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)

The Church of St. Elizabeth of the House of Árpád, 1901

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baom and behold! it wai a-bloom with roses ... the blessed Kins of the Heavens would not that her beloved handmaid be found out falsely spoken. " (The Anonymous Author of Carthause, The trdy Codex, 1526)

The daughter of Andrew II and Gertrude of Merania, Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, was married to Louis, Marquis of Thuringia, from 1221. Her pious life inspired many a legend. The church, built between 1893 and 1901 in the former Poorhouse Square (since 1932 Rózsák tere, or Square of the Roses, in memory of the miracle that befell the little girl), is another important masterwork of Imre Steindl (1839-1902), who also designed Hungary's Parliament. The parish itself had been established as early as 1879. Its first church stood on the other side of the square, until it was outgrown by the parish and had to be replaced with the new one. (The old church, which was consecrated on 18 November 1881 was the work of József Czigler. Named after the Virgin Mary Mother of God, this single-nave neo21