14 | London’s lost church of the 11,000 virgins | ----------- | |
IanVisits | 2018-12-12 16:10 | ????0? | |
The 11,000 virgins were first mentioned in the late 9th century and the common thinking is that they accidentally read Undecimillia or Ximillia as a number, or reading the abbreviation XI. M. V. as ‘eleven thousand [in Roman numerals] virgins’ rather than ‘eleven martyred virgins’.Had the King of the west of England been able to do a deal with the other English Kings, then as the country probably had a population of around 1.5 million at the time, finding 11,000 virgins would have been achievable, but would have left such a devastating blow to the country that it would be a legendary event in our history. -- ???????? | |||
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