Early Church Father St. Jerome: Joseph also was virginal through Mary, in order that from a virginal marriage a virginal son might be born... he [St. Joseph] who merited to be called the father of the Lord remained virginal with her"
Early Church Father St. Jerome:
- You say that Mary did not continue a virgin: I claim still more, that Joseph himself on account of Mary was a virgin, so that from a virgin wedlock a virgin son was born (The Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Virgin, 21). [http://www.rosary-center.org/ll54n4.htm]
- Joseph also was virginal through Mary, in order that from a virginal marriage a virginal son might be born. For if the charge of fornication does not fall on this holy man, and if it is not written that he had another wife, and if he was more a protector than a husband of Mary, whom he was thought to have as his wife, it remains to assert that he who merited to be called the father of the Lord remained virginal with her." (Jerome against Helvidius, 10-PL23:203). [https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9298]
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