The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary: Testimony from her Canonization Hearings

Book Description

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.

中文：

书名：匈牙利圣伊丽莎白的来世与来世：她被封圣听证会的证言

在……里面 匈牙利圣伊丽莎白的生命与来世肯尼斯·巴克斯特·沃尔夫提供了匈牙利圣伊丽莎白封圣听证会上证人提供的证词的研究和翻译，圣伊丽莎白于1231年在德国马尔堡去世，享年24岁。大部分证词取自那些声称通过这位新圣徒的代祷而痊愈的人。他们对他们疾病的描述，以及他们在伊丽莎白位于马尔堡的神殿寻求救济的努力，不仅让现代读者详细、深入地了解了圣徒邪教的起源，也让他们对当时生活在德国的普通人的生活和希望有了一个异常清晰的窗口。

除了关于她的奇迹的证词外，教皇专员们还听取了证人对伊丽莎白圣洁生活的描述。从伊丽莎白抵达图林根州的沃特堡城堡，作为兰德格雷夫·路德维希四世的未来妻子，到她在马尔堡创建的医院担任看护人去世，四个女人认识她，为她的生活提供了生动的小插曲。连同伊丽莎白的忏悔者和马尔堡守护者康拉德的证词，他们用文字记录了这位匈牙利公主为治愈她的特权生活所做的不懈努力和创造性努力，而她的生活则与之相反：自愿剥夺和直接服务穷人和病人的生活。