Congregation of Saint Elizabeth

The section to the right of the cemetery entrance is reserved for the 30 graves of the sisters who belonged to the Congregation of Saint Elizabeth.

The Sisters of Saint Elizabeth, whose order was founded in Aachen in 1622, settled in Luxembourg on 25 July 1672. They received their first patients in the building that today houses the Naturmusée.

In 1843, the sisters set up their motherhouse in the municipal hospice that the City had recently acquired and that they were called on to manage. They remained there until 1916, when they moved to their new motherhouse on Boulevard Joseph II.

The sisters cared for the ill and wounded during the Franco-Prussian War, tended to the elderly, orphans, and pupils living at the Convict Épiscopal boarding school, and were involved in teaching girls in both the cities and the countryside.

The Souvenir Français monument and the monument to the Communards in the Val des Bons Malades Cemetery pay tribute to the people who died in the municipal hospice managed by the sisters at the time. The funerary monuments honouring the sisters are all identical and made of shale in the shape of a Latin cross. Each monument watches over several deceased sisters, whose names are engraved on both sides. They display the coats of arms of the Order of Friars Minor, since the Third Order of Saint Francis of the Congregation of Saint Elizabeth is a women's religious order inspired by the spirituality of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. In addition to the names and dates of birth and death, each cross includes detailed epitaphs in memory of the deceased sisters' various charitable works. The first sister from the Congregation of Saint Elizabeth was buried in 1858, and the last in 1973.

The congregation currently has its own burial plot in Notre-Dame Cemetery near its motherhouse on Boulevard Joseph II.