Though St. Elizabeth of Hungary lived over 800 years ago, she has a unique appeal for Christians today. Love, rather than ideology or politics, was the basis of her whole life. Born in 1207, the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and married to Ludwig IV, the Landgraf of Thuringia, Elizabeth was a happily married woman who loved her husband and children. As a lover of the poor, she not only practiced charity, but protested the injustices practiced against the poor in the feudal world, even her husband's own policies. Above all, Elizabeth hungered for God and found him in her everyday activities as a noblewoman, ruler, wife and mother before she found him in religious life and service to the poor in imitation of St. Francis. This new life, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of her birth, is based on the most up-to-date research and is accompanied by the testimonies given at her canonization process, including some that have never before been translated into English.

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

Lori Pieper

Tau Cross Books and Media

A Passionate Adventure: Living the Catholic Faith Today offers a wonderful opportunity for English-speaking readers to learn more about the Servant of God Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, the short-lived and too little remembered Pope, whose smile and warmth are echoed again in Pope Francis. Along with a short biography, the book contains a large selection of English translations of Luciani’s sermons, talks and articles on the faith from 1959 to 1978, the time when he was Bishop of Vittorio Veneto and Patriarch of Venice. The future Pope explains the various aspects of the faith in a clear and vivid style, responding to the challenges that secularism presented to the faith of Catholics in his day, which are remarkably similar to the ones we face today. He shows how living the faith each day is a “passionate adventure” for someone in love with God.

A Passionate Adventure: : Living the Catholic Faith Today

LUCIANI, Albino

Biographies & Memoirs

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

Pieper OFS, Lori

Leaders & Notable People

This Franciscan classic, first published in 1907, and written by a famous Capuchin scholar, tells the story of a young woman in thirteenth-century Italy who shocked everyone by openly living with a rich nobleman outside of marriage and bearing him a son. After her lover was murdered, she was alone and rejected by her family. Filled with remorse and guilt, she finally found peace with the Franciscans as a penitent in the Third Order, and eventually became a saint. Fr. Cuthbert tells Margaret’s story with great sensitivity and literary skill. The book also contains his translation of her Legend, written by her confessor, Fra Giunta Bevignati, detailing her spiritual struggles and revelations from God, as told to him by Margaret herself. Together the two works provide a moving portrait of her growth in holiness. This new edition is provided with a new introduction by Lori Pieper, OFS, giving background on the author and his work, along with notes and a bibliography.

A Tuscan Penitent: The Life and Legend of St. Margaret of Cortona (Franciscan Classics)

Hess, Fr. Cuthbert

Bevegnati, Giunta

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

A Passionate Adventure: : Living the Catholic Faith Today

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

A Tuscan Penitent: The Life and Legend of St. Margaret of Cortona (Franciscan Classics)