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Over a century of St Elizabeth's history

Throughout the 120 years St Elizabeth’s has been delivering care, we have developed and expanded as the needs of the children, young people and adults have grown more complex. Today, we celebrate the vital work we do across a 60-acre site, offering high-quality, individualised care to all our service-users. However, it’s important to recognise the starting roots of St Elizabeth’s, and how the hard work and dedication of the very first Sisters has enabled us to evolve and become the charity we are today.

St Elizabeth’s Centre sits on a wealth of history, dating back to the late 1800s. In 1899, His Eminence Cardinal Herbert Vaughan wrote to Reverend Mother Marie Augustine, the Superior General of the Daughters of the Cross of Liège. He asked that she, along with other Sisters, start a residential school for children with epilepsy. In those days, there was a terrible stigma attached to epilepsy and through no fault of their own, parents and the community were ashamed and afraid of the condition. There was little known about epilepsy, no

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History of St. Elizabeths

St. Elizabeths Hospital was organized by Congress in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane but is known as St. Elizabeths after the name of the land on which the hospital was constructed. Noted social reformer Dorothea Lynde Dix, a devoted advocate for the mentally ill, and Dr. Charles Henry Nichols, a physician who specialized in the treatment of mental illness, convinced Congress to purchase the original 189 acres to establish and fund the hospital. St. Elizabeths was instrumental in developing standards of care for state hospital systems in the United States. By the early 20th century, St. Elizabeths had grown to more than 350 acres located on both the west and east sides of Nichols Avenue (now known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE.).

St. Elizabeths Campus is a prominent example of the mid-19th century reform movement, which believed in moral treatment for the care of the mentally ill through the therapeutic blending of architecture with the natural environment. The St. Elizabeths site is located on a plateau along the A

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Patron Saint

Saint Elizabeth was born in Hungary in 1207 AD, the daughter of the King of Hungary, Alexander II. At the age of four she was betrothed to the child, Louis, son of the Landgrave of Thuringia to whose court she was sent to be raised and educated. She and Louis were married in 1221 and were gifted with four children. En-route to a crusade, Louis died. Elizabeth gave birth to their fourth child shortly thereafter. At the age of twenty she found herself a widow and mother of four.

From a young age Elizabeth showed a propensity for prayer and good works. Amidst the grandeur and activity of the royal court she maintained an active prayer life, which overflowed into love for the poor. Without shirking her duties as a wife and mother Elizabeth the queen visited the poor twice daily, morning and evening. She spent all of her revenue from her husband’s four principalities on the poor. She even built a hospital for the poor at the foot of the castle. She was known for taking food and clothing to the poor, carrying the sick on her back, and selling her grand royal gowns t