Saint Alexander Akimetes as an anchorite reportedly raised a baby girl, got her pregnant, and then murdered her, but eventually received her forgiveness. … Read the post great Saint Alexander Akimetes’s wicked rationalizing
In his Liber confortatorius, the medieval monk Goscelin wrote about his Christian love and longing for the nun Eve, his student at Wilton Abbey. … Read the post Goscelin and Eve’s love was filled with Christian understanding
Adapting Ambrose’s story of the Antioch virgin-martyr, Goscelin made a girlish boy into the transvestite rescuer in the brothel. … Read the post virgin in brothel won double crown with transvestite martyr
Goscelin’s Vita & Translatio of tenth-century saint Edith of Wilton describes miracles for bowel movements without any medieval sense of stench. … Read the post bowel miracle of Saint Edith exposed thief