The original title was <i>St Elizabeth of Hungary</i> and the picture was intended to represent an episode in the life of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elisabeth_of_Hungary" title="Category:Elisabeth of Hungary">that saint</a>. Calderon based his idea <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_Kingsley" title="Category:Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>'s poem "The Saint's Tragedy".
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Philip_Hermogenes_Calderon" class="extiw" title="w:en:Philip Hermogenes Calderon"><span title="British artist (1833-1898)">Philip Hermogenes Calderon</span></a>
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1891<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1891-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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