The Order of the Sisters of St Elizabeth (Elisabethinae, Ordo Elisabethinarum, Sorores Hospitalariae S. Elisabethae, OSE) is a Catholic Church Order founded by Apollonia Radermecher (1571–1626) in Aachen in 1622.Eder, Manfred. "Sisters of Elizabeth." Religion Past and Present. Brill Online, 2015. Retrieved March 2015. The order was called after Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (also of Thuringia).
The Sisters of St. Elizabeth have a tradition of caring for the sick and so they have founded a lot of hospitals especially in Central Europe. In 1910s, Mother Pulcheria Wilhelm, superior general of the foundation in Klagenfurt, Austria, promoted the establishment of the sisters in North America.
The convents and hospitals were founded in these places: Aachen, 1622 Düren, 1650 Luxembourg, 1671 Graz, 1690 Vienna, 1709 Klagenfurt, 1710 Prague, 1719 Wrocław, 1736 Linz, 1745 Kadaň, 1748 Straubing, 1749 Munich, 1750 Cieszyn, 1753 Brno, 1754 Bratislava, 1758 Budapest, 1785 Neuburg an der Donau, 1840 Jablunkov, 1850 Münsterberg, 1863 Humboldt, Saskatchewan, 1911
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