Moroder decided to submit a work to an art exhibit at the World's Fair of 1900, to be held in Paris. He chose his wooden sculpture of "St. Elizabeth of Hungary with a Beggar", which he had sculpted in 1898 at the age of 21, based on a design by . He won the Gold Medal in the exhibition for this piece. The work is now in the Rosary Chapel of the parish church of Urtijëi, known for the large number of significant works of art from that period created by the large, local artistic community of the region.