catholic saints that starved themselves— an edtwt thread
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throughout the middle ages, several women were afflicted with ‘Anorexia mirabilis,’ colloquially known as the fasting girls.
religious women often starved themselves to become closer to God, to imitate Jesus’s suffering, or to avoid marriage. over half of female Catholic saints, blesseds, venerables, or servants of God post-1200 AD had anorexia.