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Updated: May 19, 2025
Oh, to follow the example of the blessed Mary of Oignies, who every day inflicted on her most holy person eleven hundred stripes in honour of that all-perfect maiden! 'Such an honour, I could have thought, would have pleased better Kali, the murder-goddess of the Thugs, thought Lancelot to himself; but he had not the heart to say it, and he only replied, 'So torture propitiates the Virgin?
The accomplished type of the "Béguine" is Marie d'Oignies, who, after a few months of married life, separated from her husband, spent many years among the lepers, and finally settled, with a few companions, in the little convent of Oignies, near Namur. Such was the spirit which inspired the builders of the Belgian churches.
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