Handmaids of the Lord - The Lives of Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages experience_Fresh & Fruity lauded the Hexaemeron as a

lauded the Hexaemeron as a superlative work inspired by the Holy Spirit

This new edition of The Spiritual Life has been prepared as a companion volume to the recently published

and the Guardian Angel - the Akathist to the Mother of God - the Psalms

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testimonies

Handmaids of the Lord - The Lives of Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages experience_Fresh & Fruity lauded the Hexaemeron as aSelected and translated by Joan M. Petersen Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role models Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde, and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world. Softcover, 441 pp.