It is incorrect, however, to suppose that St Anthony took any part in the creation of the flagellant fraternities, which were the result of spontaneous popular movements, and later than the great Franciscan preacher; while Ranieri, a monk of Perugia, to whom the foundation of these strange communities has been attributed, was merely the leader of the flagellant brotherhood in that region.   anvd [Please select]

Partly, perhaps, a painful curiosity, a flagellant longing to press the iron that had seared him to his soul.   anvd [Please select]

But it is full of a cruel irony that brings to mind a vision of one of those old medieval flagellant priests reviewing his sins before thrashing his own body with a wire whip.   anvd [Please select]

She did not see in Clare's hopeless passion the joy of the flagellant, or the self-dramatization of a neurotic girl.   anvd [Please select]