Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . V. ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. allow. She resolved, therefore, as she might not beg, to labourfor her support. She spun wool, and as her poor fingers becameweaker and weaker, and she earned less and less, her clothesbecame ragged, and she mended them with shreds of any colour,picked up here and there, so that her appearance excited thederision of the people, and the very children—those childrenwhom she had so tended and cherished—pursued her in thestreets as a mad woman ! All t
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . V. ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. allow. She resolved, therefore, as she might not beg, to labourfor her support. She spun wool, and as her poor fingers becameweaker and weaker, and she earned less and less, her clothesbecame ragged, and she mended them with shreds of any colour,picked up here and there, so that her appearance excited thederision of the people, and the very children—those childrenwhom she had so tended and cherished—pursued her in thestreets as a mad woman ! All these humiliations, and more andworse, she endured with an humble and resigned spirit, and thepious looked upon her as a second St. Clara. But even into her poor retreat the wicked world pursued was reported—but only in distant parts, where she was notknown—that she was living with the priest Conrad in an unholyunion; and her old friend, Walther de Varila, thought it rightto visit her and to warn her of these reports. She made noanswer, but, sadly shaking her head, she bared her shouldersand showed them
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