A Short History of Women's Rights / From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.

by Eugene A. Hecker

Virginitas praeferenda coniugio—August., vol. 44, p. 142 of Migne. The Council of Trent, eleven centuries later, in its twenty-fourth session, re-echoed this sentiment and anathematised any one who should deny it.

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Migne, vol. 16, p. 342.

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Id., II, p. 1074.

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Tertullian ad uxorem, i, 3.