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To: sinkspur
the Russian orthodox would call her a fool for christ...a saintly fool...in Orthodox tradition this is not an insult...(see Catherine doherty's books)
2 posted on 12/12/2003 2:05:05 AM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc
Interesting suggesiton - she does have some characteristics in common with the holy women of the Orthodox tradition - a lay person who lived a type of mystic life, and a person set apart from ordinary standards (thus, a "holy fool").

Some aspects of her life remind me of another mystic thinker of the 1930s and 40s - Simone Weil. Alas, they have one negative thing in common, they both seem to have a form of anorexia.

3 posted on 12/12/2003 2:38:51 AM PST by BlackVeil
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