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a sort of abridged version of Vizmanos's [*Las Virgenes Cristianas de la Iglesia Primitiva*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6496) He accuses St. Gregory of Nyssa of being a Platonist on p. 51 ("Mais comme c’est platonicien!"), in the sense of being almost a Manichean dualist, but this is his only criticism of St. Greg's writings on virginity. He also makes the interesting point that consecrated virginity, like marriage, is a sign, too, but that it signifies more clearly and actually the union of Christ and His Church or of Christ and the soul in the Beatific Vision (for *viatoribus* , it is more than a sign of Christ's union with the soul, but the reality itself). He also quotes the beautiful preface of the [*De Benedictione et Consecratione Virginum*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6514), which compares marriage and virginity and discusses their "semiotics": > While no prohibition lessens the dignity of marriage and while the nuptial blessing resting on matrimony is safeguarded, nevertheless, there will be nobler souls who, spurning the carnal union entered into by man and wife, strive after the mystery it signifies. Without imitatin

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Author

Camelot, Pierre-Thomas, O.P.

Publisher

Éditions du Cerf

Published

1944

Language

FR

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion