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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (210696)12/6/2012 12:44:22 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 543140
 
Re: "Lucy became a devout Christian, refused to compromise her virginity in marriage and was denounced to the Roman authorities by the man she would have wed. They threatened to drag her off to a brothel if she did not renounce her Christian beliefs, but were unable to move her, even with a thousand men and fifty oxen pulling. So they stacked materials for a fire around her instead and set light to it, but she would not stop speaking, insisting that her death would lessen the fear of it for other Christians and bring grief to non-believers."

Lost to history is the story Lucy's betrothed, the man who almost married a woman heavy enough to remain unmoved by a thousand men and fifty pulling oxen, a woman determined not to share his bed and a woman so vociferous that she wouldn't shut up, speaking even after being toasted and with a spear in her throat.

In the final analysis, however, are either of their stories all that unusual? Ed
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