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was supposed to lead a chaste and virtuous life according to the rules of the monastery. Access of women to the
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Upon finding the girl, the bishop summoned his council and it decided that the girl should be immured in the wall of the chapel and the canon was to be put in prison, where he was starved to death. The builders left a cavity into the wall and the girl, with a piece of bread and a mug of water, was
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