Elizabeth, the most well-known Hungarian saint in European Christendom, was born as the daughter of king Andrew II in 1207; she was only four years old when she was taken to Thuringia as the betrothed of landgrave Hermann. Her betrothed died prematurely in 1216 and Elizabeth would have unquestionably returned to her homeland, had it not been for the younger brother of Hermann, Louis, heir of the earldom who fell in love with her and married her in 1221. During the six years of their marriage Elizabeth bore three children; according to legend tradition and to contemporary sources these Wartburg years have been a period of harmony and happiness in Elizabeth’s life. In 1227 an epidemic claimed the life of Louis who set out to the crusade and the widowed Elizabeth gradually subjected her whole existence to the still novel Franciscan ideals. She joined the order in 1228 and dedicated her remaining years to the nursing of the ill. She founded a hospice in Marburg and dedicated it to the recently canonized St. Francis of Assisi. Her confessor, to whom she pledged unconditional obedience, was Conrad of Marburg who became infamous as the first inquisitor of Germany; it was he who started the process of her canonization after her death in 1231. The ecclesiastical investigation lasted four years only, so the ceremony of Elizabeth’s elevation took place on May 1st, 1236 in Marburg, in the presence of emperor Frederic II (Tarczay 1930; Reber 1982; Werner 1987; Sz. Jónás 1997).