"Continency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Symmacho. Bar. ad ann. 504. Fleury, Liv. 31. 3. Inter opera Ennodii. t. 4. Conc. Labb. col. 1300. 4. Patrocinia. 5. S. Fulgentius, in his first letter, to a gentleman whose wife in a violent sickness had made a vow of continency, proves that a vow of chastity ought not to be made by a person engaged in a married state, without the free consent of the husband. In his second, to Galla, a most virtuous Roman lady, he comforts ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler |
