St. Elizabeth Research Paper

St. Elizabeth was born in the year 1271, and the daughter of King Peter 111. Elizabeth was named after St. Elizabeth of Hungary.She lived in Portugal and was married at the young age of 12, to king Denis of Portugal, in the year 1282. St. Elizabeth was very religious as a child and a wife, she attended mass and prayed at least twice everyday. Even though she was faithful to God her husband was not as devoted, his sins of impurity brought St.Elizabeth great suffering.
One day the King Denis heard a lie about Queen Elizabeth and a page from a wicked page and decided to punish him by throwing him in the lime-burner. When the page was called he started to go but then stopped at church on his way. The impatient king sent the wicked page to check

if it had been done, but as him being the first page to arrive he was thrown in the lime-burner. The king saw that God had saved the good page and believed that his wife was good. He then started to live a truthful and holy life, like his wife.
St.Elizabeth of Portugal dedicated her life to her religion. She believed in goodness, honesty, and love. After her husband died in 1325 she joined the Third order of St. Francis and became a nun. Everyone knew her as a kind giving woman, during a famine in 1293 she even donated flour from her cellars to the starving in Coimbra. St. Elizabeth was also known for paying the dowries of poor girls, helping to educate children of poor nobles and dressing modestly. She died July 4 1336, and her feast day is on July 4.St. Elizabeth is a patron saint of the third order of St.Francis.