ELISABETTA DI REUTE, BEATA - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. V, p. 172

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

BL. ELISABETH OF REUTE (commonly called E. Bona, and “Betta the Good”), mystic. Born at Waldsee (Württemberg) on 25 Nov. 1386; died at Reute.

Article illustration — Elisabeth, Queen of England – drawn by Johann Wirtix (1600).

With the able cooperation of Sir William Cecil, she soon succeeded in winning universal recognition, but at once made her religious policy felt. By 1559 (27–28 Feb) she imposed the Act of Supremacy.

BL. ELISABETH OF REUTE – ELISABETH OF THURINGIA

Near Waldsee on 25 Nov. 1420. At the age of 17 (1403) she entered the monastery of the Franciscan Tertiaries at Reute, where she remained until her death.

She devoted herself to meditation on the Passion of Christ, whose sufferings inspired in her penances and fasts; she was noted for mystical charisms: ecstasies, visions, stigmata. Her tomb was always greatly venerated; her cult was confirmed by Clement XIII in 1766. Feast: 25 Nov.

Bibl.: The principal source is the biography written by her spiritual director Conrad Kügeltin in 1421; a first edition was prepared at Waldsee in 1879, a second in 1881–82. Cf. Wadding, Annales, ann. 1420, m. 4; G. Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, XXII, pp. 351–52; I. Beschin – I. Palazzolo, Martyrologium Franciscanum, Rome 1939, p. 452.

Giovanni Odorici