Cartwheels down the aisle: Byzantine Intersectionality
Barbara Newman, 26 September 2024
When an innkeeper’s daughter accused the monk Marinos, a hardened ascetic, of fathering her child, his brethren were appalled. But Marinos, meekly confessing his sin, accepted the punishment of exile and even nursed the infant with milk supplied by shepherds. After several years, the monks readmitted him to the usual monastic routine, along with extra penitential labours. It was not...