Virginity
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
virginity · her own virginity · the virgin state
in the texts
Letters
The consecrated state of virginity, its dignity, discipline, and violation, central to Letter 46.
of how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled upon the Son of God, and corrupted the bride betrothed to him, and outraged the spirit of virginity?
And I expounded the dignity of virginity, and, calling you a temple of God, I gave, as it were, a wing to your eagerness, lifting you up toward Jesus, and by the fear of the terrible thing I helped you not to fall, saying:
And what need is there to speak of the honours paid you for his sake by those who were his — the living together with virgins, the processions with them, the receptions by virgins, the eulogies upon virginity, the virginal blessings, the letters addressed to you as to a virgin?
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The state of sexual innocence, whether from birth or adopted after baptism, presented as the highest grade of Christian sanctity.
The first kind is virginity from birth;
More examples, and indeed weightier than these others, you may find with more care among our own;
De Virginibus Velandis
The state of sexual abstinence/purity claimed by consecrated virgins, discussed as a grace requiring humility
For virginity consists in grace, but continence in virtue.
Set both side by side—one compressed in the garb of a woman, and one who, advanced in maturity, endures in virginity with her own garb:
If on account of men they abuse their garb, let them fulfil it even in this, and as among the heathen they veil the head, certainly in the church let them hide their virginity, which outside the church they conceal.