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Jesus and Women
Women were from the beginning amongst those who suffered for their faith.
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 | Women of Biblical Times by Donald Weeks
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Jesus behavior toward women, even viewed through the andocentric lens of the Gospel texts, is remarkable. Jesus welcomed women into his closest discipleship: After this he journeyed through towns and villages preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve accompanied him, and also some women. Mary called the Magdalene, Joanna, the wife of Herods steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who were assisting them out of their means.(Lk 8:1-5).
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| Early Women Martyrs of the Christian Church
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Women were from the beginning amongst those who suffered for their faith. How many were killed by Saul we shall never know. The earliest secular extant account of Christian women suffering for their faith was given by Tacitus in his Annales (9.3.32) written in AD 57, about the same time that Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians, and by Pliny the Younger in his famous letter to Trajan c.112 (Epp.x.xcvi).
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| Women as Missionaries and Abbesses
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The first women considered here in missionary work were the wives who converted their husbands who in turn had their subjects follow them into the Faith. The second lot are nuns who from their monasteries contributed to the conversion of pagans to the Christian faith.
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| Women and the Monastic Life
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Palladius writing in the early 5thC, in his Lausiac History of life in the desert told of his encounters with women. In his travels he came across a convent of 400 women and a remarkable abbess, Amma Talis, who has lived ascetically for 80 years. He revealed how spiritually free these women in the desert seemed to be, and of their generous hospitality.
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