De Sanctimoniali de Wattun or On the Nun of Watton is a 12th-century miracle story, describing events which took place in Yorkshire in the mid-12th century at the nunnery of Watton, East Riding of Yorkshire.
[3] The author is usually thought of as the Cistercian abbot Ailred of Rievaulx, an identification that is probable if not certain.
The author related that as a four-year-old girl, she was given to the nunnery by Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York, but failed to embrace the religious life with much enthusiasm.
[1] After the other anchoresses discover the affair, she escapes being burned to death or skinned alive and is locked in a cell, before being forced to castrate her ex-lover.
[1] Back in her cell, God intervenes, ends her pregnancy and frees her of her chains, events which the community came to recognise as miracles.