Elżbieta Łucja Sieniawska (1573-1624), was a Polish magnate. She was the founder of the Benedictine nunnery of Sandomierz (1614) and the Jesuit church at Lviv (1607).
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She was the daughter of Anselm Gostomski and Zofia Szczawińska, and served as maid-of-honour to queen Anna Jagiellon in 1587-90 prior to her marriage to Prokop Sieniawski (d. 1596). She was famous in contemporary Poland for her ascetic lifestyle. After having become a widow, she lived for the rest of her life in extreme Catholic asceticism, following the life and principles of a monastic, going so far as to refuse medical care when she was ill, a piety of an extreme form which attracted criticism from the Catholic clergy, who thought this too much for a lay person. She also conducted persecution of the Jews on her lands.
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edit- Irena Kaniewska Elżbieta Łucja Sieniawska z Gostomskich [w] Polski Słownik Biograficzny tom XXXVII wyd.1996-1997 s.87
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