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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGAPETAE , a class of " virgins " who, in the See also:

church of the See also:early See also:middle ages, lived with professedly celibate monks to whom they were said to be See also:united by spiritual love. The practice was suppressed by the Lateran See also:Council of 1139.

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