The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, credited to Saint Jerome, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary by Saint Jerome. (Translated by William Henry Fremantle.) Read in English by ancientchristian St. Jerome composed this essay against Helvidius, who stated that because the gospels mentioned Christ as having “sisters” and “brethren” the Virgin Mary must have had more children from Joseph her husband. In response Jerome asserts three propositions against Helvidius: 1) That Joseph was only putatively, not really, the husband of Mary. 2) That the “brethren” of the Lord were his cousins, not his own brethren. 3) That virginity is better than the married state. - Summary from the preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary
• Author credits: Saint Jerome
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:09:43

Catalogue topics

• Jerome
• virginity
• virgin mary

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface. Chapters 1-4 — 15:04
2. 02 - Chapters 5-12 — 18:11
3. 03 - Chapters 13-17 — 18:38
4. 04 - Chapters 18-24 — 17:50

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