Elizabeth of Hungary

You don't do things by halves. Once your heart has said yes, you hold nothing back, not even what is yours. That is exactly how Elizabeth lives: a Hungarian king's daughter at the Wartburg, landgravine at fourteen. According to tradition, the bread she carries to the poor turns to roses. Widowed at twenty, she refuses to cling to her wealth, chooses poverty of her own free will, builds a hospital in Marburg, and nurses the sick with her own hands. She dies at twenty-four, and all of Europe venerates her at once; only four years later she is canonized. For her, charity was never a gesture; it was faith working with its own hands. So here is the question for you: what would you give away if no one asked you to?