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The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Testimony from her Canonization Hearings (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,142
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The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Testimony from her Canonization Hearings (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Baxter...

The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Testimony from her Canonization Hearings (Hardcover, New)

Kenneth Baxter Wolf; Commentary by Kenneth Baxter Wolf

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In The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Kenneth Baxter Wolf offers a study and translation of the testimony given by witnesses at the canonization hearings of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who died in 1231 in Marburg, Germany, at the age of twenty-four. The bulk of the depositions were taken from people who claimed to have been healed by the intercession of this new saint. Their descriptions of their maladies and their efforts to secure relief at Elizabeth's shrine in Marburg provide the modern reader not only with a detailed, inside look at the genesis of a saint's cult, but also with an unusually clear window into the lives and hopes of ordinary people living in Germany at the time.
Beyond testimony about her miracles, the papal commissioners also heard witnesses speak to the holiness of Elizabeth's life. Four women who knew Elizabeth from her arrival at the Wartburg castle in Thuringia as the future wife of Landgrave Ludwig IV to her death as a caregiver in the hospital that she founded in Marburg provide vivid vignettes about her life. Together with the testimony of Elizabeth's confessor and guardian, Conrad of Marburg, they capture in words the Hungarian princess's tireless, creative efforts to "cure" her life of privilege with its opposite: a life of voluntary deprivation and direct service to the poor and sick.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2011
First published: December 2010
Translators: Kenneth Baxter Wolf (John Sutton Miner Professor of History)
Commentary by: Kenneth Baxter Wolf (John Sutton Miner Professor of History)
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 248
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-973258-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity
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LSN: 0-19-973258-2
Barcode: 9780199732586

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