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What are Agapetae?

What are Agapetae? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Women of the early Christian church who cohabited in a state of "spiritual love" with clergy or laymen who had vowed chastity.
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It describes the Agapetae as virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen who like themselves had taken a vow of chastity.
The men adopted agapetae, spiritual sisters or wives with whom they slept but did not have intercourse.

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