!!!Elisabethinen

Elisabethians: Originally, various organisations of Franciscan 
tertiaries engaged in work for the poor and the sick called themselves 
Elisabethians, after St. Elizabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231). In 
1690 three Sisters Hospitallers of St. Elisabeth of the Third 
Order of St. Francis came from Dueren to Graz, where the first convent 
and hospital of Elisabethians in Austria was founded in 1694. From 
Graz, the convents in Vienna (1709), Klagenfurt (1710) were founded 
and in 1745 a branch was established in Linz. Today, the Elisabethians 
devote themselves to numerous charitable activities, especially 
nursing the sick and care of the elderly.


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