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“The passive implications of ‘virginity’…fail to capture her spirit.”

“Raymond,and nearly all the biographers who followed him have called it Catherine‘s“vow of virginity“If sometimes we have difficulty understanding Catherine it may be due to the fact that most accounts of her life dating from that era were written by men.The words attributed to her in those biographies have been run through various male filters.Catherine herself didn’t see it that way.”