[2] “Tantum denique abest incesti cupido, ut nonnullis rubori sit etiam pudica conjunctio.”—M. Felicis, Oct. c. 31. One Father was so extraordinarily chaste that he had never seen a woman’s face, nay, he dreaded even touching himself, “se quoque ipsum attingere quodammodo horrebat.” Another Father had so fine an olfactory sense in this matter, that on the approach of an unchaste person he perceived an insupportable odour.—Bayle (Dict. Art. Mariana Rem. C.). But the supreme, the divine principle of this hyperphysical delicacy is the Virgin Mary; hence the Catholics name her Virginum Gloria, Virginitatis corona, Virginitatis typus et forma puritatis, Virginum vexillifera, Virginitatis magistra, Virginum prima, Virginitatis primiceria. [↑]
“Salve sancta parens, enixa puerpera Regem,
Gaudia matris habens cum virginitatis honore.”
Theol. Schol. Mezger. t. iv. p. 132. [↑]
[4] See e.g. J. D. Winckler, Philolog. Lactant. s. Brunsvigæ, 1754, pp. 247–254. [↑]
[5] See on this subject Philos. und Christenthum, by L. Feuerbach. [↑]