Marguerite Porete was a medieval woman mystic who called them selves Beguines, they lived mostly in Western Europe, but I like to think they were Irish missionaries. Read the book: "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill.
Anyway. these brave women would pick a secluded meadow near a town and read the Bible to anyone who would listen (against the law, the Pope ruled that Christians could only listen to the prepared tracts read to them on Sunday by a Priest - which is why Marten Luther was so blown away when he first read the Holy Scriptures as written).
Marguerite was burned at the stake in Paris in 1310.
Marguerite Porete was a medieval woman mystic who called them selves Beguines, they lived mostly in Western Europe, but I like to think they were Irish missionaries. Read the book: "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill.
Anyway. these brave women would pick a secluded meadow near a town and read the Bible to anyone who would listen (against the law, the Pope ruled that Christians could only listen to the prepared tracts read to them on Sunday by a Priest - which is why Marten Luther was so blown away when he first read the Holy Scriptures as written).
Marguerite was burned at the stake in Paris in 1310.