Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague)

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Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague).

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.5.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)

Filed beside it

Monks sacrifice themselves (to save king and princes from pestilence)Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers

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