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# Saint Wilgefortis, the bearded virgin crucified by her father after refusing to marry a prince
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/eto-ne-iisus-v-plate-a-katolicheskaia-sviataia-borodataia-deva-vilgefortis/
- Published: 2017-02-24T17:38:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Faith, Art, Ethnography

This is not Jesus in a dress, but a Catholic saint: the bearded virgin Wilgefortis. She prayed that her father might not marry her off to a prince she did not love, and a beard grew upon her face; her father, in a fury, had her crucified