2007 was the year when we celebrated the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Elisabeth of the House of Arpad, the sainted princess who was a daughter of Hungary’s King Andras II and Gertrude of Merania, and a younger sister of King Bela IV. Born at Sarospatak, at the age of four she was betrothed to Hermann, future Duke of Thuringia, and grew up as a child in the Thuringian court.