Sentences with phrase «virgin handmaidens»
When Christopher Columbus stumbled across a group of islands dotting the eastern Caribbean Sea in 1493, he thought them so dazzling that he named them «Las Virgenes», after the 11,000 virgin handmaidens of the legendary St Ursula.
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Evangelical retrieval of a proper biblical theology of Mary will give attention to five explicit aspects of her calling and ministry: Mary as the daughter of Israel, as the virgin mother of Jesus, as Theotokos, as the handmaiden of the Word, and as the mother of the Church.
Though «The Handmaiden» has just a few gory scenes, one involving the flow of blood from a woman who at least poses as a virgin, another being an extended scene of torture involving the cutting off of fingers and a hand.