Event: Advice/counsel, Correspondence, Vowing celibacy/chastity/virginity/povertyAlcuin 1.letter to Æthelburg 8 encouraging fulfilment of her promise to live chastely
Alcuin 1 encouraged Æthelburg 8 to live a life of virginity and gave her counsel.
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Alcuin 1
(Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804) : Alcuin 1 recounted how virginity offered eternal rewards. He urged Æthelburg 8 to be generous in the bestowal of alms and to avoid avarice.