The Eastern Cross/Library/Concerning Virgins
St. Ambrose wrote this for his sister Marcellina, who had taken the veil in Rome. It praises the life of virginity, tells the stories of St. Agnes, St. Thecla and others, and gives practical advice on prayer and fasting.
It was one of his first books and one of his most loved.
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About this edition
Translated by H. de Romestin, with E. de Romestin and H. T. F. Duckworth, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 10 (1896), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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