Anchoress (1993)

Anchoress 1993 In fourteenth century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest who lusts after her suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers But when the priest has Christines mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death