[290-304] The earliest surviving French hagiography, handwritten in Old French in the year 880, is the story of Eulalia. In her young life, she had “a beautiful body [and] a soul more beautiful still,” but death came early when she refused to deny God — not for gold, silver, nor jewels, not even when she was personally ordered by the pagan emperor Maximian.
Eulalia was a rebellious teen
Eulalia was a rebellious teen
Eulalia was a rebellious teen
[290-304] The earliest surviving French hagiography, handwritten in Old French in the year 880, is the story of Eulalia. In her young life, she had “a beautiful body [and] a soul more beautiful still,” but death came early when she refused to deny God — not for gold, silver, nor jewels, not even when she was personally ordered by the pagan emperor Maximian.