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Cathar women could be hidden in plain sight, as with Raymonda of Mazerac. The prioress at the Abbey La Lecune, she was reported as a heretic after she questioned the nuns on the Virgin Mary. The deposition states she asked, ‘whether the Blessed Virgin had really suckled Jesus physically and suffered giving birth like other women.’
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages
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