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	Patron Saints Index: Our Lady of Guadalupe
		The Blessed Virgin appeared on Saturday 9 December 1531 to a 55 year old neophyte named Juan Diego, who was hurrying down Tepeyac hill to hear Mass in Mexico City.
		The life size figure of the Virgin Mother, just as Juan had described her, was glowing on the tilma.
		Sworn evidence was given at various commissions of inquiry corroborating the traditional account of the miraculous origin and influence of the picture.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/mary0003.htm (1137 words)

	Crossing Boundaries: Albania's Sworn Virgins: www.jolique.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In order to remain unmarried, however, she must become a sworn virgin and dress and act as a man. The other condition under which a woman may become a sworn virgin is if her parents deem it so due to a lack of sons.
		As a man, the sworn virgin becomes the family's representative in the community.
		Although some descriptions of sworn virgins refer to them as women who have had to sacrifice their gender, on the contrary, it is not a sacrifice at all, but rather an avenue of opportunity.
	www.jolique.com /gender/crossing_boundaries.htm (491 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Tales of the Virgin
		Likewise the matron began urgently to implore the aid of the blessed Virgin whom, frequently, day and night, she had been accustomed to salute and before whose image she had been wont to kneel in prayer.
		At length the pious Virgin, overcome by their prayers, summoned the demons who had caused the deed and enjoined upon them that, as they had caused the scandal to religion, they must bring the infamy to an end.
		But when about the ninth hour, in the presence of a multitude of men, he had sworn by the tongue of the blessed Virgin, by blaspheming her he lost the use of his tongue, and by speaking basely of her, suddenly stricken in the presence of the multitude, he fell dead.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/tales-virgin.html (2139 words)

	Library Bulletin 344
		No documentation as yet has been discovered to explain the origin or date of origin of the phenomenon of ‘sworn virgins’ where girls/women adopt male characteristics (as perceived by Albanians) largely by virtue of dress and behaviour and take a vow of celibacy and are accepted as men by their communities.
		This background clearly establishes the history of and rationale for the existence of the ‘sworn virgins’.
		Three types of ‘sworn virgins’ have been identified: those whose choice was made in childhood by parents; those whose choice came after puberty, and a rare type – the semi religious one.
	www.library.unp.ac.za /Bull344.htm (2070 words)

	Sworn II Silence - ZeBOX Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sworn 2 Silence is ready to break its silence by the end of summer 2002 with a full length album.
		In 2001, Sworn II Silence entered Spider Studio in Strongsville Oh, with co-producer Tony Gammalo and began recording the bulk of what would become the bulk of their debut full length album.
		Sworn II Silence finds its inspiration in funk rock/metal, big band, lounge music, and the works of bands like Switched, Faith No More, Erase The Grey, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, 2nd Half, Unified Culture, The Beatles, Incubus, Alice In Chains, Primus, Coinmonster, The Apex Theory, Mr.
	zebox.com /sworn2silence (530 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I will examine the tradition of sworn virgins (virdzina, tobelije, muskobanja) who lived and live in the mountainous regions of Northern Albania and neighboring Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro through the literature, including Young's recent Women Who Become Men and sources from Yugoslavia.
		In the West we usually think of transvestites and transgendered people as going against societal norms to perform their desired identities, but in the case of sworn virgins, it is the patriarchal society that forces the women to live as men.
		Most significantly, the film breaks with the authentic sworn virgin tradition to show a heroine who expresses her inner, essential desires to live life as a woman, escaping the patriarchal oppression of life as a sworn virgin.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2001/abstracts/KMoss.html (247 words)

	Crossing Boundaries 2: www.jolique.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the choice to become a sworn virgin is often made by other family members for the reasons described above, sometimes a woman will become a sworn virgin because she feels more comfortable as a man. Antonia Young describes her encounter with a sworn virgin, named Lule:
		At the age of nineteen, Lule decided to become a sworn virgin, even though she still had a brother who legally could inherit the family's wealth.
		Thus, where no men exist in a given household, this duty falls to the sworn virgin.
	www.jolique.com /gender/crossing_boundaries2.htm (441 words)

	Amazon.com: Women Who Become Men : Albanian Sworn Virgins (Dress, Body, Culture): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A strength of Young's book is that she clearly articulates the primary motivations for becoming a sworn virgin in Albanian society.
		The tradition of sworn virgins has deep roots in the cultural traditions of the clans living in Northern Albania and Kosovo.
		The clan and extended family system is in full gear in the North of Albania and in neighboring Kosovo where on occasion a sworn virgin can be seen clinging on to the traditions that have engulfed this portion of the Balkans since the occupation of the Ottoman Empire and even prior to that.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859733409?v=glance (983 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Cops Climb, Slowly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The budget lists 441 sworn police officers funded by the city, plus an additional 45 officers from state and federal grants, implying a total of 486 total officers.
		In particular, Diaz said that on Good Friday she saw the Virgin in one of the trees and heard her voice resonate in her head.
		A mesh of wires houses the shrine, which is full of plastic flowers, icons and pictures of those who say they've been healed by the Virgin on the site.
	hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:68002 (546 words)

	Welcome to The BVI Beacon Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Orlando Smith is sworn in as the territory’s new chief minister by Governor Tom Macan Tuesday.
		Theodore Daniels, Bishop of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, on Sunday.
		Supporters for both the National Democratic Party and the Virgin Islands Party were out in force last week at rallies leading up to the election.
	www.bvibeacon.com /061903/index061903.html (379 words)

	Palazzo Milzetti - Miti: Numa Pompilio e le Vestali
		Once her term of service had been completed, a virgin was free to marry or start another lifestyle, but usually they were afflicted by regret and depression for the rest of their lives and they inspired pious reverence in the others, so that they kept faithful to their virginal promise until old age and death.
		If the Virgin broke the vow of chastity she was condemned to death buried alive, near what is known as the Colline Gate, where there was a small room, with an entrance from above.
		As the Vestal Virgin they had to take vow of chastity and of obedience, but despite the severe and inflexible discipline both the religious women could enjoy particular intellectual advantages and overcome the mental invalidism, which was imposed to this sex in those times.
	www.racine.ravenna.it /lctorricelli/ipertesto5d/numaingl.html (646 words)

	Jane Toombs, author at New Concepts Publishing - Great Books for Less
		True, she took part in the forays into the city where the senior virgins ventured, always in pairs, to do what they could for the poor and ill. This meant she wasn’t always confined to the Verbot Temple.
		But the Virgin warriors were strictly for defense and, as Zareen well knew, her Temple hadn’t been under attack for more than the twenty years she had lived.
		Senior virgins were not required to bow their heads to the Verbot Doma, as juniors and acolytes were.
	www.newconceptspublishing.com /forbidden.htm (3015 words)

	Hippomenes
		He fell in love with the virgin huntress Atalanta.
		She had sworn to remain unmarried until someone could defeat her in a foot race; unsuccessful suitors forfeited their lives.
		Hippomenes challenged to a race, and won by means of the three golden apples given to him by the goddess Aphrodite.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hippomenes.html (100 words)

	Island Sun - Local News - British Virgin Islands
		On the advice of the Honourable Chief Minister, Mr Ralph T O'Neal, and in accordance with the Constitution of the British Virgin Islands, the Governor has on Thursday morning (20 July) revoked the appointment of the Hon Eileen L. Parsons as the Minister for Health, Education and Welfare.
		Ethlyn Smith will be sworn in as a Minister of the O'Neal Government at the same time.
		She was in favour of the NDP motion on Domestic Violence and she viewed the Rasta Law as a foolish law.
	www.islandsun.com /2000-july/200700/local4-v4i14.html (324 words)

	Island Sun - Local News - British Virgin Islands
		The youngest representative ever to be sworn in as minister with a portfolio, 29-year-old Hon.
		Ralph O'Neal said that the ceremony had been planned for the swearing in of only one new minister but because of the unexpected turn of events two ministers had to be sworn in.
		She was elected as an independent at-large candidate in 1995 and then re-elected in 1999 as a Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate.
	www.islandsun.com /2000-july/270700/local2-v4i15.html (777 words)

	A Reader's Guide to The Recognitions, II.1 pp. 311-342
		Roman women, to ensure fertility (and not necessarily naked), would put forth their hands to be stricken with the leather thongs carried by young men (Luperci) appointed to celebrate the festival.
		Women dedicated to her service ("vestals") were sworn to virginity and buried alive if they violated their vows.
		338.11] Stabat Mater: the Virgin weeping for her son on the cross, from the famous poem that begins: "Stabat mater dolorosa" ("The mournful mother stood weeping") attributed to the thirteenth-century monk Jacopone da Todi.
	www.williamgaddis.org /recognitions/21anno2.shtml (1774 words)

	Knitting Circle School of Transgender Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Newman's acquaintance, as it turned out, was a 'sworn virgin', part of a long tradition of cross-gendered women living mainly in the uplands of northern Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro."
		"Sworn virgins still exist, although in far fewer numbers than in the past, and as Antonia Young shows in her sensitive study, they are more than sexual curiosities.
		The sworn virgins of the Balkans are a salutary reminder of the fluid nature of personal identity.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /stafflag/transgenderstudies.html (2313 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Dominican PM sworn-in amid opposition protest
		ROSEAU, Dominica: Roosevelt Skerrit was on Monday sworn-in as Dominica's Prime Minister amid a street protest here by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) who accused the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) of rigging the May 5 general election.
		After Skerrit was sworn-in by President Dr Nicholas Liverpool, he promised to serve with "the highest sense of integrity and honesty".
		The Dominican leader said the rest of his Cabinet would be announced and sworn-in on Thursday, while Ian Douglas, the nephew of late Prime Minister Rosie Douglas would be sworn-in as Attorney General on Monday afternoon.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/05/10/protest.shtml (458 words)

	Comments on 13152 \| Ask MetaFilter
		He or she is not going to so much as bat an eyelash over an older virgin, let alone gawk or consider you a freak.
		Also, the fact that you are a virgin may or may not mean that you have an intact hymen since you can lose it through tampon use, horseback riding or even masturbation.
		I was a thirty year old virgin and was also afraid I'd be looked at as a freak of nature, but it was ultimately fine.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/13152 (5620 words)

	Forwardgarden.com
		"sworn virgin" takes on the masculine role as a child or teenager
		Can the "sworn virgin" change her mind and become female again?
		feud" and place the "sworn virgin" and male members of her family
	www.forwardgarden.com /forward/3145.html (503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1937 the Legislative Assembly of the Virgin Islands was established for the territory; in 1970 the territory inaugurated its first elected Governor; and in 1972, the first Virgin Islands delegate to Congress was sworn in.
		All were accomplished, not by Virgin Islanders, but rather for Virgin Islanders through enactments by the United States Congress.
		This legislation approves referring the constitution to the voters of the Virgin Islands for referendum.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1981/71081a.htm (263 words)

	St. Croix Source
		Despite an increase in its number of full-time students, the University of the Virgin Islands has seen an overall drop in its enrollment, members of the UVI Board of Trustees were told at a general meeting, Saturday.
		It has something for the Virgin Islands, but the rest of the bill is bad.
		Starting on Monday, gas stations in the Virgin Islands were asked to lower prices to reflect a 50 percent fuel tax cut —— from 14 cents to seven cents.
	www.onepaper.com /stcroixvi?v=d&i=&s=News:Local&p=63145 (833 words)

	MediaRights
		This fascinating film is a rare window into Albanian culture and an even more remarkable glimpse at the age-old custom that allows Albanian women to change their gender by taking the oath of a ‘sworn virgin’.
		Pashke is one of the women who promised not to marry, bear children and to remain celibate in return for the status and respect deemed worthy of a male.
		Artfully weaving together interviews with Pashke’s family and neighbors with rarely-seen footage on the subject of ‘sworn virgins’ from Albanian cinema, Michalski has created a compelling story about gender roles, with universal implications.
	www.mediarights.org /search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=06330 (212 words)

	[No title]
		Both are anthropological in approach (although the first is classified as a historical study), which seem to fit well with the ill-supported editorial perception regarding the lack of textual evidence.
		Mildred Dickemanns article on the "sworn virgin" in the mountains of the Balkan collates the fragmentary evidence for a >type of woman in patrilineal rural societies, who cross-dresses and comes to be accepted socially as a man, with proscribed social penalties for deviating from that sworn role, which among other things precludes her from marrying.
		He does further note the luring promise in the Quran to the believers of immortal ghilman in addition to the dazzling virgin houris in paradise, and makes a point of one mysterious saying attributed to Muhammad, in which he claims envisioning god as a beautiful youth.
	www.glas.org /ahbab/arts/review1.htm (2163 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Indigenous Cultures
		Yet permitting land to pass out of the family in the absence of male heirs is undesirable.
		In such instances, an elder daughter becomes a "sworn virgin" in order to receive the inheritance.
		She is never permitted to marry and lives as a social male for the rest of her life, wearing men's clothing and even taking on a male name.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/indigenous_cultures.html (828 words)

	OPIC Press Release 3-7: 01/30/03
		SAMUEL EBBESEN SWORN IN AS Samuel Ebbesen, pictured with wife Lillian, after being sworn in as an OPIC board member by the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
		WASHINGTON, D.C. — Samuel E. Ebbesen, former three-star general in the United States Army and current senior vice president of Innovative Telephone Corporation, responsible for all telecommunications in the Virgin Islands, was sworn in as a member of the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
		Active in several civic organizations, Ebbesen is president of the Virgin Islands Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the board of St. Thomas Chapter of the American Red Cross.
	www.opic.gov /pressreleases/2003/3-07.htm (503 words)

	The Birth of Athena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Athena is the goddess of war, heroism, intelligence, virginity, and arts & crafts.
		But unlike her lusty half-sister Aphrodite, you won't find Athena frolicking in bed with every man she encounters; a sworn virgin, Athena's chastity is of paramount importance to her.
		The goddess went on to have a long and rich career, figuring prominently in the lives of many, always staying true to herself and encouraging those who crossed her path to live a life of moderation, good deeds, and heroism.
	www.columbia.edu /~jac34/athena.html (563 words)

	Romance at Heart Magazine: review of Elemental Wizards: Age of Fire by Sapphire Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Both women are to remain virgins all their lives to keep them from being distracted from their duties, and to honor the sacred positions they hold for their village.
		She could stay a virgin and have her night time thoughts to satisfy her need for personal connection and romantic love, stillshe wants more.
		Whispers on the wind have reached the brothers telling them the village seer prophesized that the Lord of the Flame demanded a sacrifice, a sacrifice of their purist virgin to go willingly into an active volcano.
	www.romanceatheart.com /review/ageoffire.html (1241 words)

	Good News Headlines for Wednesday, June 25, 1997
		Wylie Whisonant will be sworn in as Commissioner of Tourism, Dean Luke to Property and Procurement, Carmelo Riviera to the Dept. of Labor and Juan Centano to the Bureau of Finance.
		Many of the Commissions suggestions have already been implemented by the Education dept. or is part of legislation introduced by Senator Vargrave Richards.
		Coming Up: The Virgin Islands will be represented in the DC Caribbean Carnival '97 on Saturday June 28.
	www.usvi.net /usvi/gnews/9706/970625gn.html (683 words)

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