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From the earliest age, Alice of Schaerbeek was a shining example of Christian devotion.1 Like Esther in the Old Testament (Esther 2:15), she was beloved by all and thought highly beautiful, despite her lack of care for her outward appearance (VAS 1:2.477). Aged seven, she left her parents’ home to forge a life of extreme piety in the Cistercian monastery of La Cambre. Some years later, perhaps around 1240 (aged around 20), Alice was struck with leprosy and her beautiful appearance horrifically disfigured.2 This event, and its physical and spiritual ramifications, dominates the short vita that records Alice’s tale, written approximately ten to twenty-five years after her death in 1250 by an unknown author.3 Two thirds of the text is devoted to leprous Alice’s tribu-

17 Christ’s Suppurating Wounds: Leprosy in the Vita of Alice of Schaerbeek (†1250)