The King of the Poor and of Kings Alike

St. Louis was 'one of the greatest kings the son ever saw' He had three poor men dine with him almost every day, and many times ate the remainder of their food with incomparable love. When he visited hospitals,. sometimes he did frequently, he regularly served those who had the most loathsome diseases, such as the leopress and ulcerus., serving them while kneeling on the ground with bare knees. And St. Elizabeth, the daughter of the king of Hungary, had the habit of associating with the poor, and sometimes in recreation clad herself like a poor woman among her ladies. We all know how on various occasions we lack something needed or are inconvenienced