Glimpses #131. Elizabeth of Many Castles



Product Code: GLM131
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
Our Price: $2.00 per pack (each pack contains 25 copies). Back issues are available only in packs of 25 copies.

Product Description: To look at her, you would not have guessed that Elizabeth was the daughter of a king and wife of a prince. In place of the gold-cloth dresses of her youth, she wore the plain gray robe of a Franciscan. Rather than be waited on, she washed lepers with her own hands. Instead of rich meats and pastries, she ate bread with a little honey, or a dry crust with a small glass of wine. She worked wool like any peasant girl. A Magyar knight, who saw her sitting by her little cottage, exclaimed in astonishment, "Whoever has seen a king's daughter spinning before?"