Celebrating St. Elizabeth in Hungary in November
The St. Elizabeth documentary has been moving slowly the last few months. But something wonderful has been shaping up.
On November 15-22, I will be at the Manreza Spiritual Center near Esztergom Hungary for the General Chapter of the SFO, to film the ceremonies that close the two-year centenary celebrations for St. Elizabeth.
And I have a new DP (Director of Photography). He is Michael Eaton, who has shot video for a number of productions, and who co-directed a DVD released by a major distributor, Lionsgate, called The Case for Christ. You can watch the trailer for it here. Like me, Michael is an alumni of the Act One program.
My brother Nick had originally planned to come with me again, and do the taping, but had to drop out because of business problems.
Among other things, we will attend the closing Mass of the centenary, celebrated by the former primate of Hungary, the Franciscan Cardinal Laszlo Paskai, tour Esztergom castle, the seat of the medieval royal family of Hungary, where Elizabeth would have lived as a young child, and take a day-long tour of Budapest.
And we will be filming this partly for the documentary, but also because the Order wants a record of this historic chapter, and will make their own video of it.
It should be quite an adventure. Please pray for its success. I will be posting updates here. You can find out more and also donate funds for completion of the documentary at this website.
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Elise B.
Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Good luck with your enterprise.
St. Elizabeht of Hungary is my patron saint and I have just finished reading her biography by the comte de Montalembert. I was saddened by the fact that her direct descendant became protestant and even desecrated her tomb.
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Lori
Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Yes, that’s quite a sad fact. The Landgrave in question, Philip the Magnanimous, actually helped Luther with the spread of Protestantism in Germany, and gave him shelter at Wartburg castle, Elizabeth’s home. And Philip prevented his own ancestor from being venerated as a saint because it was “superstition,” and as you said, desecrated her tomb.
Montalembert’s book is beautiful, but written over 150 years ago. You might like to read a book I myself wrote about St. Elizabeth, based on the most up-to-date research on the documents. You can order it from http://www.taucrossbooks.com.