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> The head of the priory of Marcigny (founded in 1054) was always referred to
as a prioress. The ostensible reason was that the abbess was the Virgin Mary,
at least that was the reason given in some accounts. There were to be 99
women, and the hundredth, the Virgin, the abbess.
> Judith Rosenberg
what is your source for this, Judith?
does this mean that the abbot of male Cluniac priories ("abbot" of a priory??)
was JC?
c
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