• The Life of Saint Mary the Harlot (c. 370) is a hagiography which can be found in Book 1 of Rosweyde's Vitae Patrum. The work is an extract from the work...
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    translations of genuine works by Ephrem, but most are not. Ephrem is attributed with writing hagiographies such as The Life of Saint Mary the Harlot (extant...
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    of love for Jesus, Mary repented and withdrew into a life of quiet isolation. Under the influence of stories about other female saints, such as Mary of...
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    distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century. Her feast...
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    was from the same monastery by the Jordan where Saint Mary had taken Communion many years before. "Life of St. Mary of Egypt", in Alice-Mary Talbot (ed...
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    Revelation of the New Testament. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17:5 as "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth"...
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    saint, said to have been an Egyptian monk who became a bishop in Syria and was responsible for the conversion of St Pelagia the harlot during one of the...
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    Jessica Brown Findlay (category Alumni of Central Saint Martins)
    indie rock band The Smiths. Brown Findlay portrayed Charlotte Wells, a madam's daughter and sex worker, in the three series run of Harlots (2017–2019), a...
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    examples of people who lived in great sin and became saints by humility and repentance, such as Saints Mary of Egypt, Moses the Ethiopian, and Dismas, the repentant...
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    Attwater, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Christian Classics 1956), 4 volumes. Cf., Benedicta Ward, Harlots of the Desert. A study of repentance in early monastic...
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    horns and names of blasphemy all over its body) and by many waters: Babylon the Great. The angel showing John the vision of the Harlot and the scarlet Beast...
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    a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church, and commemorated on 14 November. Theodora was of Greek descent, but much of her...
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    through Tamar's seduction of her father-in-law, through the collusion of Rahab the harlot with Joshua's spies, through Ruth the Moabite's unexpected marriage...
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    Babalon (redirect from The Book of Babalon)
    first is BABALOND, which is translated as harlot. The other is BABALON, which means wicked. Some flavour of context in which they appear can be found...
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    oldest. "The Life of Saint Pelagia the Harlot", the vita of a legendary 4th or 5th-century Christian hermit and penitent, Saint Pelagia of Antioch, states...
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    Nabor and Felix (redirect from Saint Nabor)
    being the male form of the Greek name Pelagios and gender bending being a common theme among the many saints conflated with St Pelagia the Harlot. Bunson...
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  • Anna Calder-Marshall (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
    Abernethie in Poirot's After the Funeral. Other roles include appearing in Harlots as Mrs. May, and in the 2018 BBC adaptation of Les Misérables as Madame...
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    Francis Charteris (rake) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Hogarth's paintings A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress (where he is represented as the fat lecher in the first plate), and in Fanny Hill. He was condemned...
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    giant. The harlot, an allusion to Revelation 17, represents the corrupted church, while the giant represents Philip IV of France, who removed the papacy...
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  • Valentine bank with Arthur, Bill, and Lenny, either pretending to be a drunk harlot or a lost girl. She has a brief love affair with Sean MacGuire; after his...
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    because of a passage referring to "The Great Harlot", "dressed in purple and scarlet", in the Bible (Revelation 17:1–6). The word comes from the Middle...
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    Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects, abandoning his pregnant fiancée From A Harlot's Progress, 1732. The background prisoners include...
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    speaks of "the Marriage-Hearse" plagued by "the youthful Harlot's curse", the result alternately of false Prudence and/or Harlotry. Visions of the Daughters...
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  • Caravaggio's Shadow (category Films set in the 1590s)
    "One of the film’s strengths is its demonstration of how aspects of reality entered into the painter’s works, how thieves, vagabonds and harlots appeared...
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    Prostitution (redirect from Harlot)
    being one of the most popular saints of the era. The Church used Mary Magdalene's biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes to...
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    Magdalene being one of the most popular saints of the era. The Church used Mary Magdalene's biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes...
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    with the harlots, put his diadem on him, and marched him off to the royal company, parted from his women if only by main force. "B" names one of the women...
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    ISBN 978-0-8223-1947-4. Retrieved 19 April 2012. fishbein, leslie (1986). "the harlot's progress: myth and reality in European and American film, 1900-1934"...
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  • This is a list of television programmes broadcast by the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom. Programmes in this...
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    Purgatorio (category Cultural depictions of Virgil)
    a denunciation of the corrupt papacy of the time: a harlot (the papacy) is dragged away with the chariot (the Church) by a giant (the French monarchy...
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