A reader wrote the other day that we should be thinking about the life and death of St. Elizabeth, a Romanov Grand Duchess who was martyred by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
She was born a German princess in 1864, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Elizabeth — called Ella by her family — was …
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