Barbara's Body: Final Girls, Saints, and Sex
If Catholics love two things, it’s dying in Christ and not having sex. For these reasons, one of the most sacred types of saints is the virgin martyr. The virgin martyrs are young (often very young) women who died as retribution for resisting male advances. -Kate Sidley “Here is the patience of the saints...” -Revelation 14:12 1. Hagiography hagiography (n.)—biography of saints or famous persons Heyshlee Burbara is a call in Lebanese: “Run Barbara.” On Eid il-Burbara (Dec. 4), Lebanese Christians don masks and go door-to-door, repeating the call for Saint Barbara to run, the mask symbolizing her disguise as she flees from the Romans. Barbara runs from death, her sentence the crime of being a woman who defied a man. The final girl. ___ My middler (2nd) year of Seminary, I took a class on religion and sacrifice in film. The professor had a fascination with the concept of sacrifice. We read a lot of Girard, talked about the circle of violence done...