Sacred Sisters
Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ãte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland''s sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity''s development. Women served as leaders and teachers, perhaps even as bishops and priests, and men and women worked toge...
Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ãte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland''s sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity''s development. Women served as leaders and teachers, perhaps even as bishops and priests, and men and women worked toge...
