The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
by
Nicola Denzey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels...