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Title: Sts. Gregory of Nyssa & Ambrose on virginity
Post by: Geremia on April 09, 2018, 10:40:13 AM
I'm astounded the recording of St. Gregory of Nyssa's De Virginitate (http://newadvent.org/fathers/2907.htm) has 124,664+ views!
https://archive.org/details/on_virginity_1711_librivox

And, despite the lewd cover art of St. Ambrose's De Virginitate (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6499), it has 68,518+ views!
https://archive.org/details/on_virginity_1710_librivox

Deo gratias!
Title: Priests inspire virginity.
Post by: Geremia on December 07, 2022, 05:27:18 PM
Quote from: Geremia on December 07, 2021, 10:39:02 AMSt. Ambrose [was] the great Latin doctor of virginity (https://librivox.org/author/4342) (as St. John Chrysostom was for the East (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6549))
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Buona festa di Sant'Ambrogio! 🎉 🥳
Pius XII's Sacra Virginitas (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_list&search=title:%22sacra%20virginitas%22) §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 (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6499), c. 5, n. 26; PL XVI, 286.]"