Tuesday, June 19, 2012

BLESSED ELA


Blessed Ela, Widow
Feast day: February 1
 Died 1261. Wife of the crusader William Long-Sword, Blessed Ela placed herself under the direction of Saint Edmund Rich. She founded a monastery of Carthusians at Hinton and a convent of Augustinians nuns at Laycock of which became abbess

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