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MARIE2 (saint). Mary the Egyptian, fl. A.D. 344-421, led a life of pleasure as a prostitute in Alexandria. She was converted when she made a pilgrimage to Palestine, and she then lived a devout life in a cave in the desert for forty-seven years (Legenda aurea LVI).

The Man of Law compares Custance's preservation to that of Mary the Egyptian, MLT 498-504.

Marie, the French form and a pronunciation variant, appears medially, MLT 500.


Jacobus de Voragine, GL, trans. G. Ryan and H. Ripperger, 228-230; ibid., LA, ed. Th. Graesse, 248-249; The South-English Legendary, ed. C. D'Evelyn and A.J. Mill, I: 136-148.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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