Article Writing Homework Help

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Golden Legend. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. One of the most disturbing aspects of the Leyenda Aurea (The Golden Legend) is the way in which saints reject sex in order to welcome death with open arms. The result is

that in many instances, (notably with martyrs) death itself becomes a type of paradoxical amalgam of the sacrificial and the erotic. To what extent do you think that this is true? I do not think that this essay’s opening statement-question is true. The martyrs died in defense of their faith. The male martyrs were not challenged sexually. The female martyrs rejected sexual advances but they also spoke and performed deeds which might have brought reactions that hastened their deaths.The Church is the bride. Christ is the bridegroom. Consequently, the religious male and female virgins who consecrate themselves to God are spouses of the Church or Christ. When a religious Christian dies, s/he is reunited with the spouse. The relationship with the spouse has always been a nonsexual one before death. After death, the marriage is consummated only in the spiritual sense when the soul is reunited with the spouse. Saint Lucy of Syracuse (283-304) was killed as a saintly martyr in 304 when she refused to worship the contemporary Emperor because it was idolatry. As a result of her defiance, the presiding magistrate Paschasius sentenced her to be sexually assaulted in a brothel. The pagans knew how much the pious Christians valued their virginity so they wielded it as a weapon and punishment.