Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet government and fostering superstition among the masses." Summoning trusty agents of police, he directed them to the village of Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled...
...Virgin birth-reproduction by females without intercourse with males...
...Holy Virgin, we propose never to adopt any manner of dress displeasing to Thee. This means that upon every occasion, even when the devil tempts us, and suggests we pass the limits of holy modesty, we will remember our promise to Thee...
Signs of the lack of marital bliss are again made evident when she somewhat plaintively says: "I should certainly be a virgin again, if not having slept with my husband for 19 years could make...
...asked Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, "believe in the Virgin Birth...