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Mary of Egypt
also: the Egyptian Mary
The harlot of Alexandria who, converted, fled across the Jordan into the desert and lived decades as a penitent hermit; at her death the monk Zosimas and a lion bury her.
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- New Poems: The Other Part §27 the harlot
Mary of Egypt, the Alexandrian prostitute turned desert penitent, whose self-surrender grew until she lay like 'the eternal nakedness of all' in her withered hair.
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