mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
But Catherine [of Siena] herself, in letter after letter, says we do not marry Christ with gold or silver but with the ring of Christ’s foreskin, given in the Circumcision and accompanied by pain and the shedding of blood.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 174 - 175)
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