Order of Widows
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enrolled widow · the order · the order of widows · widows
in the texts
Ad Uxorem
The ecclesiastical order of enrolled widows, requiring single marriage.
For concerning the honours of widowhood with God, it has been settled in one saying of his through the prophet:
How much second marriages detract from faith, how much they clamour against holiness, the discipline of the church and the apostle's ruling declare, since it does not allow the twice-married to preside, and does not grant that a widow be enrolled in the order unless she has been the wife of one husband.
De Virginibus Velandis
The church order of enrolled widows, requiring advanced age and prior marriage/motherhood
I plainly know of a virgin somewhere placed in the order of widows when not yet twenty years old.