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This title examines the phenomenon of St. Wilgefortis froman art historical perspective.

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``Friesen is to be applauded for her efforts to bring Saint Wilgefortis back into the public arena--quite literally in some cases, for the author includes some charming anecdotes of her rediscoveries of supposedly lost and deliberately hidden images of the saint.'' -- Samantha J.E. Riches, Religion and the Arts -- 200512 ``Despite the potentially sensational nature of the subject matter, Friesen adopts a matter-of-fact tone in her praise-worthy attempt to chart the long and rather confusing history of an unusual cult....[A] useful addition to the scholarship of hagiography, providing a number of unedited Germanic works and updating the 1934 study of Schnurer and Ritz, unavailable in Canadian libraries.'' -- Gwendolyn Trottein, Bishop's University, RACAR -- 200502

Friesen is to be applauded for her efforts to bring Saint Wilgefortis back into the public arena--quite literally in some cases, for the author includes some charming anecdotes of her rediscoveries of supposedly lost and deliberately hidden images of the saint.''--Samantha J.E. Riches Despite the potentially sensational nature of the subject matter, Friesen adopts a matter-of-fact tone in her praise-worthy attempt to chart the long and rather confusing history of an unusual cult....[A] useful addition to the scholarship of hagiography, providing a number of unedited Germanic works and updating the 1934 study of Schnurer and Ritz, unavailable in Canadian libraries.''--Gwendolyn Trottein, Bishop's University

Friesen is to be applauded for her efforts to bring Saint Wilgefortis back into the public arena--quite literally in some cases, for the author includes some charming anecdotes of her rediscoveries of supposedly lost and deliberately hidden images of the saint.''--Samantha J.E. Riches

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Ilse E. Friesen has been a professor of art history and coordinator of Fine Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1988.

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