"Columba da Rieti so mutilated herself with spiked chains bound across her hips and breasts, already scraped raw and blistered from her hairshirts, that a gang of would-be rapists who stripped her were too awed to consummate the deed" (126) is the line. I've found no reference to the incident elsewhere, despite quite a bit of googling ("columba da reiti", sometimes with the modifiers of "rape" or "chains") and it's really bothering me.
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"Columba da Rieti so mutilated herself with spiked chains bound across her hips and breasts, already scraped raw and blistered from her hairshirts, that a gang of would-be rapists who stripped her were too awed to consummate the deed" (126) is the line. I've found no reference to the incident elsewhere, despite quite a bit of googling ("columba da reiti", sometimes with the modifiers of "rape" or "chains") and it's really bothering me.
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