Letter 22 to Eustochium
Author: first_name: Saint
last_name: Jerome
Language: English
Year: 1890

St. Jerome's most famous letter (<i>Libellus de virginitate servanda</i>), written to St. Eustochium, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Roman widow St. Paula. St. Jerome exhorts St. Eustochium to embrace virginity and teaches her the proper conduct of a young woman. It contains his:<br>
1. view that God, though omnipotent, cannot restore a fallen virgin (§5)<br>
2. vivid description of fasting and temptation (§7)<br>
3. view of abortion, that it is murder (§13)<br>
4. term superbiam sanct