Anchoress

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In fourteenth-century England, a peasant girl is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with the res...

In fourteenth-century England, a peasant girl is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with the responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has her mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell.

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