Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 443
fore sitting down to table, she washed thefeet and dressed the wounds of the sick poor,while nine orphans and twenty-four Avidowsor aged persons were always partakers ofher meals. During Advent and Lent shehad as many as three hundred at her table. Her daughter Matilda, who was alsocanonised,… … Fig. 270.—St. Elizabeth of Hungary,going to relieve the poor, suddenlysees the folds of her cloak covered with .roses in full bloom.—From a Painting Matilda, who was early instructed m the ex- byFraAngelicointhe Academy of Fine ercise of cnarity first by her august mother,Arts at Perugia (Fifteenth…
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