Female Blasphemy…and Glory
Maifreda had taught her followers that she was destined to rule all Christendom: that she would be elected pope.
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, by Tom Holland
Things didn’t end so well for Maifreda. She was burned at the stake. Having followed in the footsteps of Guglielma, her fate was sealed when Guglielma’s past was revealed.
Guglielma, so it was reported a year after Maifreda’s execution, had come to the city ‘saying that she was the Holy Spirit made flesh for the redemption of women; and she baptised women in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of herself.’
She taught a form of dispensational theology: from the Creation to the coming of Christ, it was the Age of the Father; from Christ until now, the mid-thirteenth century, it was the Age of the Son. Now it was the Age of the Spirit, and whether sanctioned by her or not, Guglielma’s followers believed her to be the Spirit. The Age of the Spirit was to be a feminine age.
After her death, Maifreda claimed to see Guglielma rise again.
A year after Maifreda’s execution, and twenty years after Guglielma’s death, the inquisitors took a crowbar to Guglielma’s tomb. The corpse was removed, a great fire was lit. The bones were burned to ashes and scattered. Her tomb was smashed to pieces and her images were crushed underfoot.
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