1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Agapetae

AGAPETAE, a class of “virgins” who, in the church of the early middle ages, lived with professedly celibate monks to whom they were said to be united by spiritual love. The practice was suppressed by the Lateran Council of 1139.

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