Elizabeth Rose was a
Benedictine
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nun
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at
Chelles,
France
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. She founded the convent of Sainte-Marie-du-Rozoy, near
Courtenay,
Loiret
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France
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, and served as its first
abbess
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Description
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. Eventually she retired to live as an
anchoress
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in a hollow oak tree.
Saint Elizabeth Rose
Patron Saint Index
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French Roman Catholic saints
12th-century Christian saints
1130 deaths
Benedictine nuns
Year of birth unknown
Female saints of medieval France
Medieval French saints
12th-century French nuns
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