A Modern Saint For Our Time
St. Elizabeth, a martyr of the Bolshevik yoke
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 …