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To: annalex; Gamecock; Elsie
True, but "wilderness" probably refers to monastic lifestyle rather than a geographical desert. Please post the pictures.

Probably????

More guess work, speculation and *sacred tradition*?

How about posting some Scripture to support it, something solid, clear, and unambiguous?

310 posted on 08/20/2013 6:56:51 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom; Gamecock; Elsie; NYer

The scripture only tells us of her life in the community of Apostles in Acts 1. I simply tried to put the “wilderness” into a plausible perspective; I do not claim to know for sure. The traditional account has her overseeing a community of young girls, which would make her a proto-abbess. Remember that a monastery was a natural way for a window to end her days, although the practice took off a couple of centuries later.

Thank you, Gamecock for these photos, they are a joy to see. NYer had a thread about the Ephesus house.


312 posted on 08/20/2013 7:15:43 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: metmom

Dang!

I shudda read ahead!


317 posted on 08/20/2013 7:39:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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