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Prioress Tale This tale is takes place in an Asian town dominated by Jews. In their town there was a school opened for the Christian group because they had the lowest population. One of the boys learned a Latin originated song named the Alma redemptoris in which was about the Virgin Mary. After finding out the mean of the song he continued to sing it. He them came across a group of Jews singing the song. The Jews didn’t like what they heard beat him up and slit his throat. His mother went around looking for him and asked the Jews to help her but because they did the crime the refused. By the time their mother found him he was still singing the Latin song. Of course the wound was fatal but as they worry about to bury him he then spoke again. The only way he was allowed to speak was because the Virgin Mary had placed a pearl on his mouth. After moving the pearl he went on to heaven leaving him a peace and a cures for the Jews who had killed him. About Prioress Prioress is a nice, gentle, caring woman. She was the type of person that took small tragedies to heart. She manly cried over anything. Also her tale was about a child that was killed by Jews for singing about the Virgin Mary.