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Sts. Gregory of Nyssa & Ambrose on virginity

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Quote from: Geremia on December 07, 2021, 10:39:02 AMSt. Ambrose [was] the great Latin doctor of virginity (as St. John Chrysostom was for the East)
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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.]"