Virgins
“church virgins, generally”
group · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
a virgin · female virgins · holy virgins · male virgins · our virgins · the scattered flock · the virgins · virgins · virgins of God · wretched virgins
spoken of as
1 expressionthe virgins2 mentions
Letters (Greek)
But above all, command him to return with the virgins;
in the texts
Letters
Young women gathered by Glycerius under false authority and led away with him.
But above all, command him to return with the virgins;
but, as I learn, the parents of the virgins, unable to bear their childlessness, and wishing to bring back the scattered flock, falling, as was likely, with laments before their own daughters — these the admirable young man, with his band of brigands, insults and dishonours.
and, gathering up some wretched virgins by his own authority and self-will — some who came running to him willingly (you know how ready the young are for such things), others against their will — he undertook to act as their flock-leader, and, putting about himself the name and dress of a patriarch, he suddenly grew insolent — having come to this not from any orderly course and piety, but having s …
De Oratione
Virgins, the group at the center of the dispute over mandatory veiling in church.
whether virgins ought to be veiled, or not.
Likewise, when he says that nature itself teaches that females must be veiled — nature, which assigned the hair to women for a covering and an ornament — has not the same covering and the same honour of the head been ascribed to virgins too?
De Virginibus Velandis
Consecrated virgins of the church whose veiling practice is the subject of the whole treatise
that our virgins ought to be veiled from the time they have made the passage of their age.
Throughout Greece, and certain of its barbarian regions, the majority of the churches keep their virgins covered.
The virgins of men, against the virgins of God, with brow plainly bared, roused to reckless audacity, are seen to be virgins who can ask something of men, much less do such a deed, namely, that their rivals—so much the freer as they are handmaids of Christ alone—should be given over to them.