#joan of arc perfume oil

[fujoshidrake]

when i am rich i will own so many strange perfumes

[austerity-audacity-asceticism]

Feminine like Mary standing at the foot of the Cross. Feminine like St. Joan of Arc stepping into the battlefield. Feminine like St. Catherine of Siena advising popes and kings. Feminine like Mother Angelica berating politicians and world leaders on television. Feminine like Mary Magdalene washing the feet of our Lord with perfumed oil and her hair. Feminine like St. Teresa of Avila writing the Interior Castle in the silence of darkness. Feminine like St. Hildegard of Bingen balancing her role as abbess with writing poetry, play, chants, medicinal treatises, and theological analyses.