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unusual facts about ordeal by fire



Andlau Abbey

In 887 Richardis was put to the ordeal by fire by her husband on the pretext of adultery with the chancellor Liutward.

Arnulf of Chocques

He was one of the chief skeptics about Peter Bartholomew's claims to have discovered the Holy Lance in Antioch, and because of Arnulf's opposition Peter volunteered to undergo an ordeal by fire.


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Trial by ordeal

During the First Crusade, the mystic Peter Bartholomew went through the ordeal by fire in 1099 by his own choice to disprove a charge that his claimed discovery of the Holy Lance was fraudulent.