And because you mentioned her, I have to tell a few words about Saint Elizabeth (Szent Erzsébet in Hungarian) and what appears to me in connection...

Daughter of a king, she lived 1207-1231, prior to the Mongols (her brother became the king who was defeated by and fled the Mongols and led the rebuilding after they pulled back).

This was a time of weakening central power, increasing German influence and barons rebelling against the previous. Elizabeth's German mother was murdered (1213) by the top Hungarian baron, the ruler of Croatia (this became the basis for one of the top two Hungarian plays, kind of the Hungarian Hamlet) - and he got away with it, in fact the king was so weak that he signed the equivalent of the Magna Charta in 1222.

Elizabeth was four when she was engaged with the count of Eisenach (later the home of Luther), and henceforth resided with her future husband's family in the castle above Eisenach - the Wartburg (which gave its name to the bigger of East Germany's polluting 'socialist cars').

She was very pious, and helped the poor - but the family saw that as wasting money, and after her husband died as crusader, his brothers threw her out with her children. There are legends of living in poverty - but she 'spent' her jewelry on the education of her children, and had ties with big names from the Pope to the Kaiser. She became a follower of St. Francis of Assisi in Marburg. She was another of those super-fast saints: it took only four years after her death.

A lot of hospitals bore/bear her name. There is an anomaly concerning her saint's day: it was originally 19 November, but during the calendar reform it was re-set to 17 November, however Hungary wouldn't go along and it's still 19 November here. (I believe this is the only example of catholic universality being broken.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}