rozsa utca

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even if my name sounds pretty

and it’s quite ladylike

I am not flawless

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but being an old lady I had time to accept my flaws

my little spots and bruises

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my wrinkles

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my worn make-up

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and my out of fashion clothes

The roza street in Budapest, Hungary, has a great history and is one of the most controver-sial for its many hidden mys-teries. In Roza Street, stands the church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, or Szent Erzsébet in Hungarian, considered one of the most remote places but in the same time beautiful in to the city. Designed by the architect Imre Steindl, and built in the Plaza de las Rosas (Rozsak tere) is a statue of St. Elizabeth, which carries roses in her lap.

According to the history this woman before being recognized as Santa, was a princess daughter of the King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania, raised in the Hungarian court and hand-cuffed to the Landgrave, Luis of Turingia-Hesse, she spend much of their lives to help the most disadvantaged people. In the spring of 1226, when the city was devastated by floods, fami-ne and plague, Elizabeth assu-med control of its affairs and distributed alms throughout its territory, even giving dresses and ornaments of the court to the poor people. Below the Wart-burg castle, she built a hospi-tal with 28 beds, and visited all the sick days to care for them.

The Secret of Szent Erzsébet

There was a time when many people in court accused her of using money from the public purse to feed the poor, a fact that caused her husband Luis doubted it and request evidence that would de-monstrate.

According to the legend, a winter day Isabel left the palace with a few pieces of bread hidden in her skirt for give it to the poor, when her husband Luis stopped her passage and asked to see what had hidden in her skirt. Faced with this question, Elizabeth replied, - “Nothing ... There are just roses...” And as a magic, appeared roses instead of bread crumbs. Elizabeth died in Marburg, Germany, either because of physical exhaustion or illness, when she was only 24 years old. She was canonized by Pope Gregory IX in 1235, since then the attributes are Szent Erzsébet roses and bread. her body was placed in a magnificent gilded altar in Elisabethkirche (Eli-zabeth Church in Marburg, Germany). This site became the center of the Teutonic Order, who adopted St. Elizabeth as them second patron. The Order remained in Marburg until Napoleon I of France dissolved it in 1803.

Currently found historical docu-ments speak of the disappearance of the body of St. Elizabeth, and according to research, the remai-ning group of the Order of Teutonic Knights in their quest to avoid the loss of the remains of the saint, in 1802 knowing the intentions of Napoleon I, moved the body of the holy city of Budapest where is the church of Szent Erszébet and they hid the body under the main altar. To date there have been excava-tions indicate that the tomb of the saint is not under court but below the sculpture located at the main entrance being the reason about why around the sculpture grow va-rious types of roses throughout the year without anyone cares?