New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-11-05

IN Inc s5ehkeSar or SynaNalIa, as Tue Calendar
OF the EtbiopiG Christian Church is called the
date corresponding to the 5tl OF November is
marked as festival day in honor Of Isaac the
Just, the forty-Grst patriarch of Alexandria, and
as the anniversary Of the assembling Of the three
hundred and eighteen fathers at Mecca, or Nice,
in Asia Minor. This latter event took place IN a.
d. 3l5, and the assembly constituted the tlrst
general council. It was at this that the H1cene
Greed was composed, that Ariansm was con"
demned, that the doctrine of the Trinity was set
tied and that the time for observing Easter was
regulated. De Morgan marks the day
as q festival in memory of Saint Hacha-
rias; the Book of Days, as the festival of
st. Barte, abbess of Chelles; German almanacs
mark it as festival in honor of st. Melachus for
Catholics, and St. Elizabeth for Protestants; and
French and other almanacs also make it sacred to
the memory of st. Elizabeth This, we conclude,
is St. Elizabeth, of Hungary, Landgravine of
Thuringia, although Mrs. Jameson apparently
dates her festival on the 10Th of November. This
difference is probably due only to the fact that the
latter date is given in old style. We have not at
hand means of verifying this conjecture, but as
this st. Elizabeth is pre.eminently famous as the
type of female charity, we may we'll assume that
tits she who is referred to. She is known in Latin
as "Sancta Elisabetha Mater Pauperum, z in Italian
as "santa Elisabeth di Ungheria,n in French as
MADAME Sancte Elisabeth ~ and " La chere
Sante Elisabeth in Spanish as Santa
Isabel in German as die Heilige Elizabeth Won
Ungarn, Tor, Won Hessen,'D and ''Die liebe Frau
Elizabeth" Her legendary biography as given
by Mrs Jameson is very interesting, embellished
though the material facts in it be by a sprink
ling of the marvellous and the fancifulg She was
a daughter of Andreas II, king of Hungary, and
born in 1907. Her birth heralded peace, pros
perity, and uprigbtness throughout the land.
- She was never known to weep from childish
petulance; the first words she distinctly uttered
were those of prayer; at three years old she was
known to give away her toys, and take OFF her
| rich dresses to bestow them on the poor; and oil
the land rejoiced in her early wisdom, goodness
and piety." Herman, landgrave OF Thurnga,
for these reasons sought her as a spouse for his
son, Prince Louis, and at four years Of age she
was taken to the castle5Of Wartbnrg, in Eisenach
and solemnly betrothed to him. From this
time they grew up together in the sweetest
affection. Elizabeth exercised a most extra
ordinary ascendancy over the other children
| in the court; her very sports seemed heavenly,
and she constantly exercised the most tender
and unbounded charity to the poor of Eisenach.
This excited envy and jealousy, which was re-
strained from active demonstrations while her
father lived. He died when she was nine years
old, Louis being sixteen His mother dsliked her
his sister openly derided her; and the ladies' OF
the court treated her with neglect: he himself
regarded her as rather the bride of heaven than
his own" Immediately afterwards her demon.
STATIONS Of extreme piety drew upon her gross
contumely and insult, which She bore with sanity
patience, trusting in Louis, although he could no
openly show her attentions. In secret, however
he comforted her, and to her friend Yarila he
made the most solemn VOWS that he loved hel
better than all the world. They were married
when Louis was twenty years of age. They liyet
happily although she continued her piou
devotions and efforts with a strietness,
constancy, and an austerity that at time
drew remonstrances from him. Her deed
Of charity were ceaseless, munificent ant
self-sacrifcing to the most extraordinary degree
/ At length. they led to numerous miracles. Sh
founded hospitals, churches and converts, no
only to the exhaustion Of the treasury, but to tn
sale Of her own jewels, robes, etc. The officer
$ and councillors complained of this; but Loui
would not heed them. He had to leave her 70
n the crusades, and died at Otranto, leaving he
q with four children, one an infant born after hi
departure. Ills brother Henry banlshed ne
s and them and took possession of his nephew
heritage. A wanderer, Knocked, supper
i. ing herself by spinning wool, she su
fered greatly but meekIy, till the knight
e who had accompanied Louis returned. The
placed her son Herman on the throne, and CAV
/. Elizabeth the castle of Marbourg her dove
whittier she retired with her three daughter
d Her devotional austerities here reached extreme
and amidst the most fearful humiliations and trial
r. miraculous Yisitations and favors, she waste
es away and died in her twenty-fourth year, in a
e. the odor of sanctity
Ill As the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot
g 1905, of the landing Of King William and the cor
Mt mencemcnt of the revolution of 1858, of the bir
at Of Hans Sachs in 1884, of the abandonment of Il
re title of king of France" by George III in $50
and of the battle of Inkermann in 1854, We mig
~. have said more about the 9Th of Novembe
il. Space and time, however, will not allow of it.