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Saint Ursula and her 11000 virgins were the subject of various visions by
Elisabeth of Schonau.
See Anne Clark's works:
Clark, Anne L. (1992) Elisabeth of Schonau: a twelfth-century visionary
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
Clark, Anne L. (trans.) (2000) Elisabeth of Schonau: the complete works (New
York: Paulist Press)
Also the article on E of S at:
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0618.htm
John Noyce
Centre for the Study of Religion and Theology
Monash University, Australia
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>
>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:16:21 -0400
>From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: 11000 virgins
>
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Saint Ursula, Cologne
>Here is the link for the article on the legend in the Catholic Encyclopedia
>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225d.htm
>It has been suggested the 11,000 is a misreading of XI MM VV =3D 11
>martyrs=
>=20
>virgins with the M being taken as mille, thousand.
>Tom Izbicki
>
>At 11:10 PM 9/11/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >Hi - I just came across a reference to the relics of the 11000
> >vigrigins...
> >Anyone who can tell me what these relics are - and who were the 1000
> >vigins (please no complete list of names ;-)) )
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Daniel
> >--
>
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