Though St. Elizabeth of Hungary lived 800 years ago, she has a unique appeal for Christians today. Love, rather than politics or ideology, was the driving force of her life. She was a happily married woman who loved her husband and children. She was a lover not just of social justice in the abstract, but of the poor as individuals. Above all, Elizabeth hungered for God, and found him in her everyday activities as a noblewoman, wife and mother before she found him in heroic charity to the poor and in religious life in imitation of St. Francis. The Greatest of These is Love, first written for the 8th centenary of Elizabeth’s birth in 2007, and based on the most up-to-date research, will bring us closer to her than ever before. It also includes an English translation of the testimonies given by her closest friends at her canonization process, along with newly-discovered from the process never before translated into English; and a section of prayers for private meditation or group celebrations.

The Greatest of These is Love: The Life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Biographies & Memoirs

Pieper OFS, Lori

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Tau Cross Books & Media

In this fascinating literary and historical detective story, Dr. Pieper explores the sources for the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and how our knowledge of her is affected by the discovery and reconstruction of a new Franciscan life of her from the end of the thirteenth century that contains lost portions of her canonization process. This work, known as the Anonymous Franciscan, gives us many new details about Elizabeth’s life, her relationship with the friars and her Franciscan vocation from the people who knew her. The author places the Anonymous Franciscan in the context of the other known sources, showing how it contributes to our knowledge of Elizabeth as a person, and of the way people of her time understood the penitential life in the nascent Franciscan Third Order.

The Voice of a Medieval Woman: St. Elizabeth of Hungary as a Franciscan Penitent in the Early Sources for Her Life

Tau Cross Books and Media

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The Greatest of These is Love: The Life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

The Voice of a Medieval Woman: St. Elizabeth of Hungary as a Franciscan Penitent in the Early Sources for Her Life