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  • After the plague was over, there were Flagellant-free zones and Sicily threatened to kill any that stepped onto their land.

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  • In 1792, Bedford and Wynn began publishing The Flagellant, Southey joining them as writer and co-editor.

    Biographical Note on Robert Southey 2007

  • Dear Matty: Oh yes, that would have been the incomparably handsome Eric Tyson Wertz, who performed a drag trifecta Saturday night: Flagellant, Fata Morgana The Queen of the Gypsies, and Flossie the Cow on Roller Skates in "Jack and the Beanstalk."

    Theodora, She-Bitch of Byzantium sfmike 2008

  • I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • In the village Shikalovo lived two dressmakers, sisters, belonging to the Flagellant sect.

    The Witch, and other stories 2004

  • Flagellant lay groups clogged the streets, seeking bloody identification with the flayed Christ.

    Philocrites: That 14th-century religion. 2004

  • Flagellant lay groups clogged the streets, seeking bloody identification with the flayed Christ.

    Philocrites: February 2004 Archives 2004

  • The first outbreak of the Flagellant movement in 1260, the year of Joachist prophecy, the emergence of the heretical semi-Joachist sect of the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

  • She dallied with thoughts of eternal suffering as a Flagellant with imagings of torture, and when her mind was reeling at the very edge of the pit she would pull herself back with a loud outcry on the Almighty, followed by a collapse as sensuous in its utter laxity.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • Always, however, these later Flagellant processions have taken place under the control of ecclesiastical authority, and must by no means he connected with the heretical epidemic of the later Middle Ages.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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