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The Mystic Margery Kempe

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Hair Shirt in Mary's Heart

She was visited by religious weeping and would just have this sort of uncontrollable crying during religious events, either while she was having visions or while she was praying. She had similar conversations with priests sometimes. And they would find that as evidence that she was being genuine and what she was describing and not making it up. It was the hair shirt in her heart. Yes.

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