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Hermit Abraham and his companion Effrem guide his orphaned niece Mary into a life of chastity. After Mary is seduced and leaves the religious life to become a prostitute, Abraham finds her years later disguised as a lover. He persuades her to return, and she undertakes severe penance as the hermits celebrate her redemption.
When the Christian sisters Agape, Chionia and Irena refuse to renounce their faith, Governor Dulcitius attempts to assault them but mistakenly embraces kitchen pots and pans. The emperor then assigns their punishment to Count Sisinnius, who has the elder sisters burned and orders Irena's execution.
Three Christian maidens defend their faith before a Turkish sultan and his officials. This Hungarian adaptation relocates Hrotsvitha’s martyr drama from pagan Rome to the sultan’s court; the surviving text is framed as a devotional reading manuscript rather than a confirmed stage script.
In a Latin dramatic retelling of Saint Thaïs's conversion, the hermit Paphnutius confronts the courtesan about her life and guides her toward repentance. She destroys her accumulated treasures, enters a convent in the Egyptian desert, and lives in penitence until her death.
Hermit Abraham and his companion Effrem guide his orphaned niece Mary into a life of chastity. After Mary is seduced and leaves the religious life to become a prostitute, Abraham finds her years later disguised as a lover. He persuades her to return, and she undertakes severe penance as the hermits celebrate her redemption.
When the Christian sisters Agape, Chionia and Irena refuse to renounce their faith, Governor Dulcitius attempts to assault them but mistakenly embraces kitchen pots and pans. The emperor then assigns their punishment to Count Sisinnius, who has the elder sisters burned and orders Irena's execution.
Three Christian maidens defend their faith before a Turkish sultan and his officials. This Hungarian adaptation relocates Hrotsvitha’s martyr drama from pagan Rome to the sultan’s court; the surviving text is framed as a devotional reading manuscript rather than a confirmed stage script.
In a Latin dramatic retelling of Saint Thaïs's conversion, the hermit Paphnutius confronts the courtesan about her life and guides her toward repentance. She destroys her accumulated treasures, enters a convent in the Egyptian desert, and lives in penitence until her death.