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Welcome back to Form Now. I am Dr. Elizabeth Klein here with Dr. Jessica Murdoch. We are both professors

who teach here at the Augustine Institute. And this is the second episode on a series of holy women

you've never heard of, so slightly more obscure female saints from the tradition, but ones that we

think are important and

cool and want to talk about. So in this episode, we're going to be talking a little bit about

St. Mary of Egypt. So St. Mary of Egypt is, as her name says, from Egypt. And she lived during

the fourth century. So her approximate dates are 344 to 421. I know in our previous episode with St.

McCrena, I think I like buzzed over that really quick. So the previous saint we did, St.

McCrena the Younger, was also from the fourth century, but lived a little bit earlier. So we're

kind of just going through time, going to do some early saints, and then a few medieval saints,

and then one modern saint. So this is number two in the fourth century. So have you ever heard of St. Mary of Egypt? I have. And St. Mary has

quite the story and the dramatic conversion, doesn't she? Yeah. So Dr. Barath thought that including

St. Mary of Egypt was maybe like not quite PG enough for the formed audience. So just as you know, there are some PG-13

elements of the life of St. Mary of Egypt, if anyone's watching or listening to this saint's life

with young kids. But she must not, she must be okay for general consumption because although

Mary of Egypt is sort of not necessarily very well known in the Western Church,

she's a very important state in the Eastern Church.

So some form watchers may know that I go to a Byzantine church and my husband is a Byzantine

right Catholic.

And so St. Mary of Egypt is actually her feast day is on the fifth Sunday of Lent in the

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