Name
Papula, transvestite monk of Tours
Saint ID
S01246
Reported Death Not Before
371
Reported Death Not After
575
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Miracle-workers in lifetime
| ID | Title | E02448 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry. | E02559 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (16), tells how a young woman, *Papula (transvestite monk of Tours, 5th/6th c., S01246), dressed as a man and joined a monastery in Tours, where she lived undetected for thirty years; at her tomb many people are cured. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. |
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