Barraud, _Notice sur les attributs avec lesquelles on represente les Sibylles aux XV'e et XVI'e siecles_, in the _Bulletin archeologique de la Commission historique des arts mon._, vol.iv (1848).

Cf.

Morosini, vol.iv, supplement xiv, p.

319.] The very economy of the Christian religion--the ordering of its mysteries, wherein humanity is represented as ruined by a woman and saved by a virgin, and all flesh is involved in Eve's curse--led to the triumph of virginity and the exaltation of a condition which, in the words of a Father of the Church, is in the flesh, yet not of the flesh.
"It is because of virginity," says Saint Gregory of Nyssa, "that God vouchsafes to dwell with men.

It is virginity which gives men wings to soar towards heaven." Celibacy raises the Apostle John above the Prince of the Apostles himself.