The Church of St. Elizabeth de Hongri dedicated to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and Our Lady of Mercy, embodies the history of Europe - both good and bad.

First, the church was the chapel of the Franciscan monastery. Marie de Medici laid its first stone in 1628. Consecrated the church after eighteen years, Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi - the future leader of the Fronde and the Cardinal de Retz, and then Coadjutor Archbishop of Paris. The church is closely related to the Temple, which after the defeat of the Templars ruled the Order of Malta, and was considered the arrival of the Knights of Malta.

During the revolution are arranged storage of animal feed (surprisingly, survived a hundred magnificent carved wooden panels of the XVII century, depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments). Parish priest Father Severin Girault not renounce their faith, they killed the peaks during the September 1792 massacre. Now he beatified.

It is from here, from St. Elizabeth de Hongri, brought the last sacrament of Louis XVI, before his execution contained in the tower of the Temple. Painting in the church shows a heartbreaking moment of the farewell of the King and his family.

Building back its mission in 1829, but during a large-scale reconstruction of the city of Saint Elizabeth de Hongri lost its chapel - Baron Haussmann needed to make room for the street Tyurbigo.

Today, Elizabeth of Hungary Church ministers to the Order of Malta in Paris, Hungarian and Chinese communities (Chinese formed even after the First World), the Franciscan family and the parish itself. When the solemn celebrations of all coming together, particularly keenly felt that the Church - Universal.

The facade is decorated with drink, reminiscent of that is the church of Our Lady of Mercy, and four statues. On the first floor - a statue of St. Louis, a contemporary of Elizabeth of Hungary, and the female figure to the left of the entrance - not Elizabeth herself, as one would assume, and Eugenia, wife of Napoleon. Statue of Elizabeth and Francis of Assisi, inspired her to penance, modestly situated upstairs. This was Elizabeth - the daughter of the king, the wife of the Landgrave of Thuringia, I prefer modesty and simplicity. She distributed alms, to help the poor; Ludwig beloved husband around to help her. When he died of the plague during the crusade, Elizabeth joined the Franciscan Third Order (the laity), gave himself completely to the poor and the sick, working in the hospital just built it to the point of exhaustion and died after living a life of holiness. She was 24 years old.