Virgines subintroductae
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The term subintroducta refers to an unmarried woman living in association with a man in a merely spiritual marriage, a practice that seems to have existed already in the time of Hermas; in the 4th century such a woman was also referred to as an "agapeta".
The Agapetae are distinct from the Virgines subintroductae, who were another class of virgins who lived with clerics. The name comes form the Greek word agapetai, meaning 'beloved'.
The Council of Nicaea, AD 325, decides in Canon 3:
- The great Synod has stringently forbidden any bishop, presbyter, deacon, or any one of the clergy whatever, to have a subintroducta dwelling with him, except only a mother, or sister, or aunt, or such persons only as are beyond all suspicion
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