ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 25th of November WELCOME! BLESSED ELIZABETH OF REUTE, VIRGIN Blessed Elizabeth of Reute [Elsbeth Achler] was a member of the Third Order of St Francis, born November 25, 1386, at Waldsee in Swabia, of John and Anne Achler. From her earliest days "the good Betha", as she was called, showed a rare piety, and under the learned and devout Conrad Kugelin, her confessor, provost of the Canons Regular of St Augustine at St Peter’s in Waldsee, she made extraordinary progress towards perfection. "THE GOOD BETHA" When fourteen she received the habit of the third order, but continued to live at home. Finding the life uncongenial, she secured the consent of her parents after long entreaties to leave home. Receiving no support from them she remained at the house of a pious tertiary, and the two worked at weaving; but the remuneration was small and they frequently suffered from hunger and other privations. THEY ...