article_snippet: This suggests the woman had been wealthy and had been carefully buried in a prominent position under the choir of the friary and close to the high altar.
article_snippet: This suggests the woman had special significant to the Catholic order and may have been an early benefactor of the friary, archaeologists leading the excavation believe.
article_snippet: They have found clues that suggest one of the women buried there was highly revered.
article_snippet: Records dating back to around the time the monastery was founded, more than 700 years ago, show that the Bishop of Lincoln offered a 30 day indulgence for anyone who would pray for a woman buried beneath a Franciscan Church in Leicester.
article_snippet: Dated to 1250, it offered a month off the pains of purgatory for anyone who would say 'a Pater and a Ave for the soul of Emma, wife of John of Holt, whose body is buried in the Franciscan church in Leicester'.
article_snippet: A grave like this you have go to think this person was important to the friars.
highlights_snippet: an elderly woman was probably a wealthy benefactor of the friary when a wealthy benefactor of the friary was first built .
  
highlights_snippet: Praying for Emma Holt soul was said to cut time in purgatory by 30 days .