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The Mystic Margery Kempe

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Importance of Prayer in Ending a Sexual Relationship

She was praying constantly to end her sexual relationship with her husband. She felt that she was displeasing God with their inordinate love. They had a very active physical life together because they're 14 kids. Some years as what of what she sort of describes as kind of a divine intervention, he would want to have sex and then he would be stricken with terror. And so on June 23rd, 1413, she and her husband stopped being married and they can or they stopped having sex, but they continued to be married until he died.

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