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Inasmuch as virginity is generally impossible to verify, this category is for those who are widely reputed to have died as virgins. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Pelagia the Virgin (Ancient Greek: Πελαγία), also known as Pelagia of Antioch, was a Christian saint and virgin martyr who leapt to her death during the Diocletianic Persecution in refusal to offer a public sacrifice to the pagan gods by Roman soldiers, [1] or to do "something unspeakable (for she was a virgin)", typically inferred as the Roman soldiers attempting to rape her. [2]
The English sense is not retricted to youth or females; older women can be virgins (the Virgin Queen), men can be virgins, and potential initiates into many fields can be colloquially termed virgins; for example, a skydiving "virgin". In the latter usage, virgin means uninitiated, as in the much older virgin knight.
Reverse of a denarius (89 BCE) depicting the torture of Tarpeia Reverse of a denarius (19-18 BCE) of Augustus showing Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields. In Roman legend, Tarpeia (/ t ɑːr ˈ p iː ə /; mid-8th century BCE), daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what ...
The earliest evidence of a cult of martyred virgins at Cologne is an inscription from c. 400 in the Church of St. Ursula, located on Ursulaplatz in Cologne; it states that the ancient basilica had been restored on the site where some holy virgins were killed. The earliest source to name one of these virgins as "Ursula" dates from the 10th century.
Virgin and martyr; Born: c. 291 Rome, Italy: Died: ... The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes is a Catholic religious community for women based in Fond du Lac ...
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Die vestalischen Jungfrauen in der römischen Kaiserzeit [The vestal virgins in the Roman imperial period]. Wiesbaden: Reichert, ISBN 3-89500-499-5. Parker, Holt N. "Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State", American Journal of Philology, Vol. 125, No. 4. (2004), pp. 563–601.