Les femmes devenues saintes dans l’Orthodoxie ou sur l’option pour un type particulier de « carrière »
Women of Holiness in Orthodoxy or On the Option for a Particular Type of “Career”

Summary/Abstract: The present paper provides a discursive and lexical study of the biographical peculiarities of some women who became holy in Orthodoxy; or in “secular” terms, using the words of the contemporary modern man, a study of the main aspects of what might be called a particular type of female “career” in holiness. We will refer to holy martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity and to contemporary saints, including one who lived in the previous century, as well as to other saints, mentioned as wives, mothers or sisters of holy men, analyzing both lexically and discursively their proper names and the stories of their lives contained in the Synaxarion. We will use the most extensive Synaxarion written in French by Father Macarius of the Athonite monastery of Simonos Petra, an abridged version of which is used liturgically at the French Orthodox monastery of Saint-Antoine-Le-Grand, metochion (or dependency) of Simonos Petra in France.

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