Back before the Church became organized, women had leadership roles. Some as Priestesses and others as Prophetesses. This story tells of a rare encounter of a knight from from the Middle Ages bowing before a Prophetess.
In 1000 AD, a Prophetess, Catherine, resided in Scotland. Her Spiritual roots ran deep back to King Arthur’s reign. She descended from a long line of Women Prophetesses. The Prophetess Megan, a descendant of Catherines served with Merlin in Arthur’s Grail ceremonies.
She had the gift of Prophetsy, and she not only advised Arthur but his warriors as well.
In the middle part of the fifth century, the Church declared that women in any Spiritual positions should be judged as witches and be killed. The Church declared that only men could hold such holy roles.
King Arthur relucantly killed Megan and other Holy Women, as per degree of the Church. Megan’s daughter
Virginia went into hiding with the help some monks into northern England. She too possessed the Spiritual power of Prophesy.
Catherine, who unlike her decendents after Virginia, decided not to hide her Spiritual Gifting, so she joined other Holy Women deep in the woods of Scotland. In this area, she would be safe because people feared to enter the area. Only those who had been sent by God would come to seek her gifts. The Knight Justice was of those sent by God.
Justice came here to make peace with God. He grew tired of wars and violence. He and many of his fellow warriors had massacred way to many people both in war and by orders from the church.
As the young knight stood before her, Catherine took pity on. She could not help to see the pain in his eyes, and the blood that stained his white robe.
Justice fell on to his knee while he wept. As he bowed before her weeping, she reached out her hands to his shoulders. She began to sing in an angelic voice words of peace and God’s mercy. She soothed his pain with soft words. Such kindness he never received from the Chaplains that followed him and his fellow knights into battles.
She sat in her chair as he slept on the floor through the night. This would be the first night in many years that he slept so peacefully.
When he woke, he Catherine still there. The other women brought him food. Their mercy moved him, so much he would stay with them until the end of his life.
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