Re-did Mary of Egypt , finished St Tatwine, continuing Maragret of Antioch and St Zita, finished Seraphine and Seraphina.
Not sure those are their names and have lost my notes; checking the catholic sites, looks rather as if I've made them up.
Improbable; not my sort. Maid and mistress, one converted the other, both decapitated.
Tatwine, below, much more fun. Seems to be known for being archbish of Canterbury and writing riddles. They are not funny. They exisit in The Exeter Book - heres a sample, not necessarily by Tatwine -
Ic eom wunderlicu wiht wifum on hyhte
neahbuendum nyt; nægum sceþþeburgsittendra nymthe bonan anum.Staþol min is steapheah stonde ic on beddeneoðan ruh nathwær. Neþeð hwilumful cyrtenu ceorles dohtormodwlonc meowle þæt heo on mec griperæseð mec on reodne reafath min heafodfegeð mec on fæsten. Feleþ sonamines gemotes seo þe mec nearwaðwif wundenlocc. Wæt bið þæt eage.
(Answer; an onion. Obvious when you think about it. And read it in English)
Actually its been interesting digging up Tatwine, more fun than reformed sex-lovers; I'd no idea riddles were really a basis of theological debate. Not all, of course (see above)
This of Margaret of Antioch cant help but be commic. The devil vomited her up because the cruxifix she carried tickled his throat. Yeah. Whatever.
Heres Zita, patron of servants. She made very free with her employers property, giving it to the deserving poor, but god always made sure she wasn't punished - multiplying the given away stuff, mostly. This isnt finished - she looks more like a film star - there is a star there that blazed during her death in the attic room she'd lived in patiently all her life.
-and the maid and mistress duo. Very sinister.
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