medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>From: Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]>
>Christina (4th cent.) Two virgin martyrs, Christina of Tyre and Christina
>of Bolsena, have been conflated to share the same feast day and acts. It's
>possible, though, that the former never existed, and the latter wasn't
>named Christina (!!) She (they) seems to hve been a victim of overkill,
>tortured with a millstone, a wheel, pincers, and finally killed with
>arrows.
Could we have a Christian version of the triple death (stab-strangle-drown)
plus one? ;)
More likely--several stories about women whose names were forgotten long
ago.
Francine Nicholson
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