The definition of Irish white martyrdom I was using was derived from Clare
Stancliffe's "Red, White and Blue Martyrdom," in Whitelock et al., _Ireland
in Early Mediaeval Europe_, pp. 21-46. In that study, white martyrdom is
simply a life of asceticism (admittedly, often involving peregrinatio).
Bitel agrees with this in _Isle of the Saints_. Is there some other study
that focuses on white martyrdom specifically as "voluntary exile from the
land of one's birth for
the 'love of God'"?
Phyllis G. Jestice
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