‘A very sexy story’: Cambridge researcher investigates appeal of female saint
In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...
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Spanish Fisherman Accidentally Discovers Medieval Virgin Mary Statue
The autonomous territory of Galicia is also part of the famous Camino de Santiago, a Medieval Christian pilgrimage ... But the mystery behind the Virgin Mary’s tragic end will remain unknown ...
'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
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How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman
Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being devoted ... In the second millennium, beginning in the 12th century, says medieval historian Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London ...
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SEARCHING FOR STATUES
Art historian Elina Gertsman, PhD, is a self-described master of persistence, a talent she used often as she searched for medieval Virgin Mary statues once so controversial that an 18th-century pope ...
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John Stokes and Mary's Gardens
The Mary's Gardens movement was founded by John S. Stokes Jr. in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the life, mysteries and ...
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'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
However, medieval readers did ... also loves imperfect people… The Mary of Egypt tale has a very important lesson that you cannot teach with tales of virgin saints – which is God's grace.