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Holy Women of Byzantium
The Lives (vitae) of medieval saints reflect the great variety of individuals who came to be venerated as holy men and women: hermits, monks and nuns, abbots and abbesses, emperors and empresses, popes and patriarchs, housewives, former soldiers and prostitutes, even Jews who had converted to Christianity. The process of sanctification is still not fully understood and needs further study, especially in the case of Byzantium, but can be summarized as follows.....
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