# Consecrated virgins. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221 "2015-08-18T22:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/21 "2015-08-19T19:14:56Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Sure, but if a volcano suddenly erupts in the center of Fort Wayne, you know whose door they’ll be knocking at. Or if a unicorn shows up. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/22 "2015-08-19T19:35:45Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Sure, but if a volcano suddenly erupts in the center of Fort Wayne, you know whose door they’ll be knocking at. OK. 🙂 Which is precisely why we need more news about where the CVs are keeping themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/23 "2015-08-19T19:44:54Z")
Someone really needs to seduce that chick and fuck her while God watches. #cuckoldjesus ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/24 "2015-08-19T23:23:26Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Someone really needs to seduce that chick and fuck her while God watches. #cuckoldjesus Nice. Just a really, really nice sentiment, there. 'Cause what _she_ wants for her life is not as important as sticking it to the invisible sky-daddy, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/25 "2015-08-19T23:39:20Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Consecrated Virgin is, like, a job title. Only it’s an unpaid job. You perform acts of repentance and prayer and you don’t get to have sex. But it doesn’t include joining a religious order, like a Nun, or the solemn vows of poverty and obedience. The RCs seem to have taken the Roman bit quite seriously. I vaguely remember a short story by Conan Doyle which involved sealing a nun into a wall, Vestal Style, but passed it off as anti-papist propaganda. > [@j666](#): > > Or, possibly, birth control? That played a good part in his essay. But it’s only like, 97% effective. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/26 "2015-08-19T23:59:02Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > I vaguely remember a short story by Conan Doyle which involved sealing a nun into a wall, Vestal Style, but passed it off as anti-papist propaganda. That’s called an Anchoress, or if male, an Anchorite. I don’t think they have them anymore, but they were quite popular in the early and high Middle Ages. They were consecrated in a ceremony very much like a funeral, and entered a small room attached to a church and never came out again. Often, the wall was sealed, and the Bishop would press his seal into the mortar. They’d spend their time in contemplation and prayer and reading. There was a small slit in the wall for them to receive food and a door through which to pass a chamber pot. They were considered living saints, and many of them died in there during raids or fires, rather than break their vows and leave the room. (I spent a lot of time in my early adulthood researching the various forms of Consecrated Life available to women within the Church to see if I might have a Calling. They all required chastity, and none of them would allow me the roles accorded to Priests. So I became a Neopagan Priestess instead. Sex is one of our sacraments. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/27 "2015-08-20T00:22:33Z")
Ah no. This was definitely a punishment unto death, complete with wild-eyed fanatic priest. The girl had either ‘got herself into trouble’, or perhaps even worse veered to the dark prottie side. As far as the sort you mention are concerned I have a picture book somewhere on monasteries by Sacheverell Sitwell which mentioned those monks in Greece (?) who were sealed in the wall for life, and every now and then put through an arm for tea or food. In the 1930s or '50s ! People have the darndest idea of what pleases God. However these ( RCs, not Orthodox ) are the people who brought you the South Baroque in the Souther Germanies and Italy, with skeletal corpses framed amidst the amazing beauty of the _mise-en-scene._ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/28 "2015-08-20T12:23:48Z")
The idea of extreme austerity to the point of death wasn’t just a Catholic idea, [Buddhists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu) did it too. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221/29 "2015-08-20T17:16:17Z")
Well, I’ve always thought the western monasticism — as distinct from Egyptian Cenobites ( the original christian monks ) — was probably copied from the Far East. Every people on earth can get together to share culture and belief with open hearts: each can contribute some particular lunacy to make life special. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consecrated-virgins/728221.md?page=1)