Central to Ambrose is the virginity of Mary and her role as Mother of God.

Ambrose viewed virginity as superior to marriage and saw Mary as the model of virginity.

He called " blasphemers " anyone who questioned the perpetual virginity of Mary and those who defended the need to occasionally restrict the laity from access to the Bible.

It is the oldest source to assert the virginity of Mary not only prior to but during ( and after ) the birth of Jesus.

The Immaculate Conception should not be confused with the perpetual virginity of Mary or the virgin birth of Jesus ; it refers to the conception of Mary by her mother, Saint Anne.

383 ) he wrote a passionate counterblast against the teaching of Helvidius, in defense of the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary and of the superiority of the single over the married state.

* The first sermons declaring the virginity of Mary are given by John Chrysostom.

The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.

By about 1300, the word was expanded to apply also to Mary, the mother of Jesus, hence to sexual virginity explicitly:

The doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus is also distinct from the more general doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary which refers to her virginity for her entire life and thus subsumes the teachings on the virgin birth.

* Perpetual virginity of Mary

The Inquisition pronounced an edict against him containing a large number of charges including denying that God punishes sins in this world, doubting the authenticity of the Bible, denouncing the popes and Church government, that Jews should not have to convert to Christianity, denying the perpetual virginity of Mary, preaching that there was no hell and adopting Lutheran doctrine with regards to the Eucharist.

Throughout his life, Oecolampadius preached the perpetual virginity of Mary, who through her life and her works gave a shining example of Christian virtues.

Müntzer defends the virginity of Mary before, during and after the birth of Jesus.

* Helvidius, sometimes written Helvetius, the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary

Origen also mentions that the Gospel of Peter, together with " the book of James ", was the source for the Church doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary.

The most common flowers and their symbolic meanings include: rose ( Virgin Mary, transience, Venus, love ); lily ( Virgin Mary, virginity, female breast, purity of mind or justice ); tulip ( showiness, nobility ); sunflower ( faithfulness, divine love, devotion ); violet ( modesty, reserve, humility ); columbine ( melancholy ); poppy ( power, sleep, death ).

As a consequence of the doctrine of perpetual virginity, which does not allow that Mary had children after Jesus, Jerome considered that the term " brother " of the Lord should be read " cousin ", and concluded that James " the brother of the Lord ," ( Gal. 1: 19 ) is therefore James, son of Alphaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, as well as James, the son of Mary Cleophas.

Of these barely one-half has come down to us, and a few only have heen published, e. g. on Simeon Stylites, on virginity, fornication, etc., two on the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the chariot of Ezechiel He wrote the first homily ( on Ezechiel's chariot ) when only twenty-two years of age.

By the 3rd century the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary was well established and defended by Hippolytus, Eusebius and Epiphanius, important early Christian theologians.

As might be expected, girls in this situation bleed very little and perhaps not at all in the process of losing their virginity.

It is implied he lost his virginity in " Holy Cornholio ," as Beavis, who was being worshipped by a group of fanatics at the time, passed on his followers to Stewart, who took him to have sex with the women of the cult.

He was known during his teen years as " Big Tam ", and has claimed to have lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.

This is done in cultures where a high value is placed on female virginity at the time of marriage.

Brides once used to wear their hair flowing down their back at their wedding to symbolise their virginity.

Here, rather than the virginity of the bride's veil, modesty of the Muslim scarf or the piety of the nun's headdress, the mysterious veil hints at sensuality and the unknown.

In an interview with the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, Buscetta cheerfully bragged that he lost his virginity at the age of eight to a prostitute who charged him just a bottle of olive oil.

In some cultures, an intact hymen is highly valued at marriage mainly to show virginity.

Upon the failure of Maxentius to make Catherine yield by way of torture, he tried to win the beautiful and wise princess over by proposing marriage to her, at which point in time the Saint declared that her spouse was Jesus Christ, to whom she had consecrated her virginity.

In a peer-reviewed study by sociologists Peter Bearman and Hannah Brueckner, which looked at virginity pledgers five years after their pledge, they found that the pledgers have similar proportions of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs ) and at least as high proportions of anal and oral sex as those who have not made a virginity pledge, and deduced that there was substitution of oral and anal sex for vaginal sex among the pledgers.

However, some have challenged the negative connotations regarding male virginity, as well as the belief that males should want to lose their virginities at earlier ages than their female counterparts.

* De Laude Virginitatis ( the prose De Virginitate ), a Latin treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, is Aldhelm's best-known work.

Mary's virginity at the conception of Jesus is also a tenet of Islam.

In New York, they take him ice skating at Rockefeller Center and then in Boston, to a brothel to lose his virginity.

Some studies have found that virginity pledges may be effective at delaying vaginal intercourse, but that they are ineffective in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) because pledgers may replace vaginal intercourse with other sexual activities, such as oral sex and anal sex ; other research, however, has suggested no such substitution among pledgers, though pledgers may partake in vaginal or oral sex.

A second peer-reviewed study, also by Bearman and Brueckner, looked at virginity pledgers five years after their pledge, and found that the pledgers have similar proportions of sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) and at least as high proportions of anal and oral sex as those who have not made a virginity pledge.

A third peer-reviewed study — by Melina Bersamin and others at Prevention Research Center, in Berkeley, California — found that adolescents who make an informal promise to themselves not to have sex will delay sex, but adolescents who take a formal virginity pledge do not delay sex.

At the beginning of the novel Kelso has a chance meeting with Sandra Stone, the girl with whom he lost his virginity back when they were at school.

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At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

She later said of this time that she " lost virginity, went a bit mad.

* Shoe Tree: For a lot of students, throwing a pair of shoes or flip-flops tied together into the shoe tree marks a memorable " first time " on the college campus — i. e. losing one's virginity .< ref >

At the same time Pulcheria proclaimed herself as guardian over her brother she also took a vow of virginity, and her sisters did as well.

" Part of the condition of the marriage was that Marcian must obey and respect Pulcheria's vow of virginity and he complied with this, given that at the time of marriage Pulcheria was in her sixties and both had conceived no heir.

", has been interpreted, at least since the time of Gregory of Nyssa, as indicating that Mary had taken a lifelong vow of virginity, even in marriage:

The next morning, upon seeing the blood stain on the bedsheet, Phak realizes that he is the first for Dao who is grieving over her lost virginity, something that she has guarded dearly for a long time.

( Sozomen wrote about the time of Pope Xystus III ) Thomassin's explanation of Sozomen's statement is that there was no preaching in the sense of an elaborate or finished discourse before the time of Pope Leo — with the exception, perhaps, of the address on virginity by Pope Liberius to Marcellina, sister of St. Ambrose, on the occasion of her taking the veil, which is regarded as a private discourse.

During that time, half of American women lost their virginity during their marriage engagements.

It is suggested in the comic book art ( but not explicitly mentioned ) that Dana loses her virginity to Weston ( who is age 25 at the time ).

It is also during this time ( as hinted later in He Shall Thunder in the Sky ) that he loses his virginity.

Rather he argues that an important issue at the time these later copies were made was that of the perpetual virginity of Mary and that both the Koridethi and OSS versions were attempts to do away with the word husband.

Presbyterian David Hill acknowledges that the wording does not absolutely deny the Perpetual Virginity ; however, he argues that if the idea of the perpetual virginity had been current at the time the gospel was written then the author of Matthew would have been more specific.

Neil is chased back to the house, after being accused of sorcery, and, with Rick promising to have a T-shirt confirming his virginity printed, the four quickly check the television to see if programming has been altered by their time loop.