Virgin Saints and Martyrs

Chapter 21: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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About This Book

A collection of compact biographies presents the spiritual journeys, ascetic practices, communal roles, and oftentimes violent deaths of Christian virgin saints and martyrs across early and later periods. Each chapter combines hagiographical narrative with historical context, describing conversion, vows, monastic foundations, episodes of persecution, and reputations for holiness or miracle attributed to the subjects. The portraits emphasize themes of devotion, sacrifice, and institutional religion while tracing how individual piety intersected with social and political forces.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the back of the main text.

Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The following changes have been made:

and made peparations —> preparations {page 123}
he could insult, browbreat, —> browbeat {page 247}
to to the Bishop of Verdun —> to the Bishop of Verdun {page 285}
two religous to commence the work —> religious {page 336}
a choir for the frairs —> friars {page 337}
distin-tinguishing habit —> distinguishing {page 356}
the commitee were unable —> committee {page 360}
againt the inky darkness —> against {page 377}