nunquam affirmative asserebat nisi quod erat missa ad levandum obsidionem Aurelianensem."] And if God had chosen the Maid to perform so great a task, it must have been because in her he beheld the virtue which he preferred above all others in his virgins.

Henceforth it sufficed not for her to have been chaste; her chastity must become miraculous, her chastity and her moderation in eating and drinking must be exalted into sanctity.
Wherefore the witnesses are never tired of stating: _Erat casta, erat castissima.

Ille loquens non credit aliquam mulierem plus esse castam quam ista Puella erat.

Erat sobria in potu et cibo.

Erat sobria in cibo et potu._[66] [Footnote 66: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.