Selected Works and Letters

Description

contains a translation of St. Ambrose's *De Virginibus* (377), [audiobook](https://librivox.org/concerning-virgins-by-saint-ambrose/)from [Fr. Unger's book on the single life](https://isidore.co/calibre/browse/book/5886):> St. Ambrose (d. 397) is considered the apostle of virginity in the Western Church. He composed several treatises on the subject. In 377 he wrote *On Virgins, to His Sister Marcellina* , which consists of three parts: the first is on the excellence of virginity, the second is a group of tableaux of heroines of this form of life, the third gives norms for living as Christ's spouse. That same year he wrote the work *On Widows. A* year later he composed *On Virginity* , which is more apologetic in tone. In 391-2 he penned *On the Virgin and on the Perpetual Virginity of Holy Mary* , because in Mary is realized the supreme model of feminine purity. The next year he produced another precious work, *An Exhortation on Virginity*.