Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis Episcopi Opera Omnia (tomi secundi pars prior)

Authors	Ambrose, St., c. 340-397 Migne, Jacques-Paul, 1800-1875
Series	Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina [16.0]
Tags	Virginity
Publisher	Garnier Fratres
Published	28 gen 1880
Date	28 set 2017
Languages	lat
Identifiers	uri: https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur16mign, oclc: 1050246069, lcn: BR 60.M4 t. 16, url: http://patristica.net/latina/
Formats	DJVU

Description

cf. Pope Pius XII's Sacra Virginitas for citations to this volume of Migne of St. Ambrose's famous works on virginity:
377 AD:

On Virgins, to His Sister Marcellina (DjVu pp. 103ff.)
- p. 210B: "pulchritudinem vero quis potest majorem existimare decore ejus, quæ amatur a Rege, probatur a judice, dicatur Domino, consecratur Deo? "
  ("Can anyone esteem any beauty greater than a virgin's, since she is beloved of her King, approved by her Judge, dedicated to her Lord, consecrated to her God?")
- Like St. Gregory of Nyssa, who emphasized virginity's beauty in his De virginitate, St. Thomas quotes St. Ambrose here in his discussion of the greatness of virginity.
On Widows (DjVu pp. 128ff.)

378 AD:

On Virginity (DjVu pp. 144ff.)
from Pius XII's Sacra Virginitas §42: "Ambrose fittingly writes: [semper spectavit ad gratiam sacerdotum, jacere semina integritatis et virginitatis studia provocare.] 'To sow the seeds of perfect purity and to arouse a desire for virginity has always belonged to the function of the priesthood.' [S. Ambros., De virginitate , c. 5, n. 26; PL XVI, 286.]"

391-2 AD:

On the Virgin and on the Perpetual Virginity of Holy Mary (DjVu pp. 164ff.)

393 AD:

An Exhortation on Virginity (DjVu pp. 180ff.)

from Fr. Unger's book on the single life:

St. Ambrose (d. 397) is considered the apostle of virginity in the Western Church. He composed several treatises on the subject. In 377 he wrote On Virgins, to His Sister Marcellina , which consists of three parts: the first is on the excellence of virginity, the second is a group of tableaux of heroines of this form of life, the third gives norms for living as Christ's spouse. That same year he wrote the work On Widows. A year later he composed On Virginity , which is more apologetic in tone. In 391-2 he penned On the Virgin and on the Perpetual Virginity of Holy Mary , because in Mary is realized the supreme model of feminine purity. The next year he produced another precious work, An Exhortation on Virginity.