saintess

It was singular that such a question could have been agitated, when the legends of the saints contained the story of the bearded saintess of the Tyrol -- a converted ballet-dancer, who was thus rendered hideous in accordance with her prayer, that she might be made so repulsive as to frighten away all lovers.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Fragments of the veil of the saintess Coleta, and the use of her well-worn cloak, immediately cured a terrible luxation, and a cataleptic patient was restored to sanity by drinking from her cup.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

Hugo the Holy abstracted a serpent from the infirm body of a woman by the use of holy water, and Coleta, the saintess, awakened from the dreamless slumber of death more than one hundred slain infants by the efficacy of a cross.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

A woman was presented to the immaculate saintess for prompt remedy; by the virtue of divine magic a demon was forced from each part of her body where he had taken refuge, but resisting absolute ejectment from this carnal abode, made a desperate conflict in the throat, where by uninterrupted scratches he reproduced himself in the form of an abscess.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

The only part of Christianity he can enjoy is its horror; and even the saint and saintess are not always denying themselves severely, either by the contemplation of torture, or the companionship with disease.

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

The saintess then asked if Her Majesty had any children, and was glad to hear she had so many.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

‘captainess’ (Sidney); ‘saintess’ (Sir T. Urquhart); ‘heroess’,

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Age, that the Maghrabi, the Necromancer, went up to the folk who were talking of the miracles performed by the devout old woman and said to one of them, "O my uncle, I heard you all chatting about the prodigies of a certain saintess named Fatimah: who is she and where may be her abode?

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855