2010 (UTC) 
 :Well, it was Lucretia's to inflict death unto herself for not being able to bear dishonor; and it was Maria's to prefer a death inflicted by someone else to a loss of virginity - "hence the comparison fails", as St. Thomas probably would put it. Of course the vigour she defended her virginity has to be called supererogatory, if such technical terms must be used. Nor does it matter that she may have kept the virtue of virginity even being raped physically because not consenting, as the Church teaches, since it was exactly her utterance of not consenting that enraged her murderer, may he rest in peace, unto his deed.   16:28, 29 September