It was occasioned by a nun's breaking a vow of perpetual virginity.

Of the fact of her perpetual virginity there can be no dispute among Catholic Christians.

The perpetual virginity of Fatimah, even after the motherhood, is a point of orthodoxy in Al-Islam.

It does not mean, therefore, her sinless life, perpetual virginity or the miraculous conception of Our

It preaches Mary, whom it proclaims from the lips of thousands of lecherous priests to be of perpetual virginity.

The vestals were bound by a vow of perpetual virginity, and a violation of this oath was cruelly punished.

And therefore they think the daughter of Jephte was not slain by her father, but only consecrated to perpetual virginity.

This was the universally held belief in Mary's perpetual virginity - that she had remained a virgin all her life.

Women such as the Kings were consecrated by the Catholic Church to a life of perpetual virginity in the service of God.

The faith of the Christian Church bears witness to the perpetual virginity of Our Blessed Lady before, during and after the birth of Christ.

The constant teaching of the Church is the perpetual virginity of Mary-that she was a virgin "before and in and after her child-bearing.

Yeats, in fact, who apocryphally commented on "the perpetual virginity of the soul", knew a thing or two about that sort of interior isolation.

Sir, -Tony Flannery of the Association of Catholic Priests (July 7th) has challenged the doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.