Christina The Astonishing Lyrics

Christina The Astonishing lyrics

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 Christina the Astonishing

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 Christina the Astonishing

 Lived a long time ago

 She was stricken with a seizure

 At the age of twenty-two

 They took her body in a coffin

 To a tiny church in Liege

 Where she sprang up from the coffin

 Just after the Agnus Dei

 She soared up to the rafters

 Perched on a beam up there

 Cried "The stink of human sin

 Is more that I can bear"

 Christina the Astonishing

 Was the most astonishing of all

 She prayed balanced on a hurdle

 Or curled up into a ball

 She fled to remote places

 Climbed towers and trees and walls

 To escape the stench of human corruption

 Into an oven she did crawl

 O Christina the Astonishing

 Behaved in a terrifying way

 She would run wildly through the streets

 Jump in the Meusse and swim away

 O Christina the Astonishing

 Behaved in terrifying manner

 Died at the age of seventy-four

 In the convent of St Anna