Women Who Fly by Serinity Young

Author:Serinity Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

These long vigils required her to go without sleep for days at a time, even as she maintained such an intense fast that the skin was said to hang off her bones. This rejection of bodily needs obviously led to an extreme loss of weight and a continual state of lightheadedness that would be conducive to Irene’s own sense of flight or, more accurately, her levitation. This seems to have been a frequent event for Irene, though there is only one witnessed account by an unnamed nun, who

happened to peep out of her cell just [in time] to behold Irene hanging in the air about two cubits above the ground and praying with her hands extended towards heaven. Two lofty cypresses were standing on either side of the forecourt, reaching far up into the air. As Irene bent forward and prostrated herself before God, they trembled gently together and bowed their crowns to the ground along with her, waiting for her to rise. But even when the holy woman stood upright, the trees did not raise their crowns until approaching she made the sign of the cross on each of them, then, as if blessed, they returned to their erect position.30

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