The Argument
It is told of the only bearded female saint that, despite her conversion to Christianity, she was destined by her pagan father to marry a pagan husband. Praying that her God might forestall so cruel an event by afflicting her with a curse that would make her undesirable in the eyes of all, she was blessed with a thick growth of beard, affliction enough apparently to cool the ardor of her pagan lover. But her enraged father revenged the broken match by brutally crucifying her in the manner of her own Hanged God.
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