Appréhension D Un Départ Tristan L Hermite

the north) or appealed to specific groups who believed in their powers of intercession: Saint Margaret, patron saint of pregnant women, Saint Gilles, healer of the sick, or Saint Marie l’Égyptienne, the penitent prostitute who lived out her days as a hermit. While most surviving texts revived martyrs long dead (Alexis died in the fifth century and Gilles in the seventh), the corpus includes THE MIDDLE AGES 7 biographies of contemporary holy men, notably the 6,000-line Vie de Saint Thomas, written