medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Today's church of St. Ursula at Köln was known into the seventeenth
> century as the Church of the Holy Virgins. Erected in the early twelfth
> century and partly rebuilt in "gothic" style in the late thirteenth,
> this chief temple of the cult in question suffered extensive damage in
> World War II and was restored in the early 1960s to a quasi-facsimile of
> its former self
According to a 17th-century source, just as at Chartres Cathedral, burials were not
permitted in this church. The reason for this presumably, as at Chartres, had
something to do with a concept of purity related to virginity which was applied to the
church on analogy with the relics of virgins located within. I have been able to find
very little on this phenomenon. Does anyone else know about it?
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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