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Nov. 03, 1955 - Pope Addresses 60, 000 Girls In Rome: While addressing 60, 000 girls of Italian Catholic Action, from a throne in St. Peter's Square, Rome - His Holiness The Pope said on Sunday that the state of virginity for a Christian woman is by its excellence superior to that of matrimony'. The Pope said': On various occasions we have had to reprove the error of those who affirm that the Christian virgin is something mutilated, something incomplete - something that does not attain the perfection of its own being. On the contrary, virginity is like living as an angel. It is a state which by its excellence is superior to that of matrimony. But this superiority, on the other hand, in no way diminishes the beauty and grandeur of conjugal life'. Photo shows The Pope being carried through the cheering girls, whom he addressed in St. Peter's Square, Rome

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