Английская Википедия:De Sanctimoniali de Wattun

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Italic title De Sanctimoniali de Wattun or On the Nun of Watton is a 12th-century miracle story, describing events which took place in Yorkshire in the mid-12th century at the nunnery of Watton, East Riding of Yorkshire. It is also called A Certain Wonderful Miracle.Шаблон:Sfn

De Sanctimoniali de Wattun survives in one manuscript, MS Corpus Christi College 139.Шаблон:Sfn It is thought to have been written around 1160.Шаблон:Sfn The author is usually thought of as the Cistercian abbot Ailred of Rievaulx, an identification that is probable if not certain.Шаблон:Sfn The author's source for the events described were the older nuns of the monastery.Шаблон:Sfn

It is set in the Gilbertine nunnery of Watton, and tells the story of the Nun of Watton. The author related that as a four-year-old girl, she was given to the nunnery by Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York, but failed to embrace the religious life with much enthusiasm.Шаблон:Sfn Finally, she begins an affair with a lay brother, becoming pregnant.Шаблон:Sfn After the other anchoresses discover the affair, she escapes being burned to death or skinned alive and is locked in a cell, before being forced to castrate her ex-lover.Шаблон:Sfn Back in her cell, God intervenes, ends her pregnancy and frees her of her chains, events which the community came to recognise as miracles.Шаблон:Sfn

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