Life of St. Mary of Egypt © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, window at Auxerre Cathedral, France, 1230s.(first register) Mary buys loaves of bread that miraculously will last for years; she leaves the desert, she prays; (second register) she meets a priest named Zozimas, she received communion from Zozimas, and finally, clothed in animal skins, she expires in the desert , later to be found and buried by Zozimas and a lion who digs her grave.

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