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	Vestal
		Vestal served the fleet as a collier, operating along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, from the autumn of 1909 to the summer of the following year.
		Vestal alternated between duty off the eastern seaboard with service in the West Indies until the spring of 1914, when she joined the fleet at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in the wake of the occupation of that port in April.
		Vestal put her in shape, too, for a trip to a "stateside" yard where permanent repairs could be made.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/v2/vestal.htm (3581 words)

	Vestal Virgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were the virgin holy priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
		The Vestal virgins were committed to the priesthood at a young age (before puberty) and were sworn to celibacy for 30 years.
		The paramour of a guilty Vestal was whipped to death in the Forum Boarium or on the Comitium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vestal_Virgin (1775 words)

	House of the Vestal Virgins, Forum Romanum (Photo Archive)
		The Atrium of the House of the Vestals
		The House of the Vestal Virgins, (Atrium Vestae), was the residence of the Vestal Virgins, the high priestesses of the cult of Vesta.
		The cult of Vesta is very ancient, and the Vestal Virgins had their residence in the same location from the 6th century BCE to the end of the 4th century CE.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/173_House_of_the_Vestal_Virgins.html (1114 words)

	Vestal Virgins of Rome: The Price of Civic Duty and Privilege
		Being a Vestal Virgin was a lifetime committment that required certain promises be made to the powerful position.
		Additionally, and most importantly, if a Vestal Virgin let the ceremonial fire at the Temple of Vesta burn out, she was also punished by execution.
		The College of the Vestal Virgins was disbanded in 394 A.D. and the ceremonial fire was extinguished by Emperor Theodsius I (the Emperor was known at this point in Roman History as "Pontifex Maximus").
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/VestalVirginsRome2 (528 words)

	The Goddess Vesta
		The priestesses or "Vestal Virgins" were similar to nuns living in a semi-enclosed order and they spent most of their time in the central cloister.
		Furthermore the Vestal priestess would have the power to deliver the captive from the hands of justice so long as she swore an oath to have come upon the situation by chance without any previous agreement or design.
		Men charged with having brought a Vestal virgin to break her vow of chastity were also sentenced to death.
	www.mariamilani.com /ancient_rome/rome_vestal.htm (705 words)

	Vestalia
		Vestals served for 30 year terms, during which they had to retain their virginity.
		Vestal Virgins enjoyed great respect from Romans of every station (think of the way most folks think of nuns, for example), and in fact, wielded some political influence behind the scenes.
		On becoming a priestess, a Vestal Virgin was legally emancipated from her father's authority.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/vestalia.htm (1711 words)

	Virgin Vestals
		A.D. Vestal virgins were women priestesses to the goddess of Hearth, Vesta, in Ancient Rome.
		The selection of a vestal virgin was a great honor because only six were chosen to sustain the flame at a time.
		When she discusses the history of Vestal Virgins, she explains the role of the vestal, but also different persecutions of individual virgins that took place in ancient Rome.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/vestals.html (1412 words)

	Vestal Virgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Ancient Rome, the Vestal virgins were the virgin holy priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
		The Vestal virgins were committed to the priesthood at a young age (before puberty) and were sworn to celibacy.
		The punishment for violating the oath of celibacy was to be buried alive, reportedly, in an underground chamber with a few days of food and water to prolong the punishment.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/v/ve/vestal_virgin_1.html (281 words)

	vestal - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		VESTAL [vestal], in Roman religion, priestess of Vesta.
		If any vestal broke her vow of chastity, she was entombed alive.
		Supervisors OK $650,000 deal in Vestal case: The settlement pays the two sons and family attorneys of Jay Vestal, who died during an '03 arrest attempt
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vestal.html (292 words)

	Vestal Virgins -- perfect images of Roman beauty
		Throughout her thirty years a Vestal dressed and was expected to act with the decorum and dignitas of a Roman bride on her wedding day, and that meant, specifically, before losing her virginity on her wedding night.
		Clearly, new Vestals were not often inaugurated in the normal run of things: even in the later period when there were six vestals, there should be only two openings in any ten-year period, unless a priestess died or was caught fooling around.
		"Vestal Virgins" from the University of Kentucky -- Quotations from Plutarch and Aulus Gellius: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/wlgr/wlgr-religion408.html
	www.mmdtkw.org /VVestal.html (1303 words)

	Vestal Virgins of Rome
		The Vestal Virgins were perhaps the most prized priestesses of Rome, because they protected what was most sacred among the city's ideals - the home fires.
		The College of the Vestal Virgins is a potent example of how politics and religion were intertwined in Rome, and another example of how some Roman women were afforded the opportunity to participate in the civic functions of Roman life.
		The new Vestals were chosen by lot from among a group of handpicked girls who were considered to be physically ideal, and who were the offspring of two living parents.
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/VestalVirginsRome (606 words)

	Vestal Virgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This high priest picked out the Vestal Virgins from groups of twenty aristocratic girls, pointing to his choices with the words, “I seize you, beloved.” They left the House of their father, were inducted by the Pontifex Maximus and their hair was shorn.
		The Vestal Virgin Tuccia with a sieve by [[Andrea Mantegna, ca 1495-1506]] The Vestal Virgins were committed to the priesthood at a young age (before puberty) and were sworn to celibacy.
		The accomplice of a guilty Vestal was whipped to death in the Boarium Forum.
	vestal-virgin.iqnaut.net (1536 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		Apparently, if any of them should happen to fail the virgin test during their 30 years vow, they were ceremoniously emtombed in a crypt (alive) which was set up with a bed, lamp, and a few days supply of bread, water, milk, and oil.
		Vestals were entombed outside the Porta Collina on the rightside of the ancient road.
		The Vestal would have her trial in the Regia and if found guilty, she would have to give-up her Vestal garments and then was whipped by those who judged her.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34536286&numresponses=12&start=0 (2464 words)

	Vestal Virgins
		It could be said that basically the Vestal Virgins were a group of women selected to serve Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth.
		Vestal Virgins were not under the potestas of their fathers and enjoyed priviledges such as the freedom to make a will and having fasces carried before them when they went out in public.
		If a Vestal Virgin let the fire be extinguished she could be punished by death.
	www.ancientworlds.net /85309 (391 words)

	Vestal Virgins
		For men, arranging a marriage with a former vestal virgin was highly prestigious, regardless of age or the ability to have children.
		As one example, the vestals were not subject to the pater potestas of their fathers.
		The punishment for breaking the vow of chastity was death by burial alive as this was the adopted to kill a vestal without shedding her blood.
	www.unrv.com /culture/vestal-virgins.php (574 words)

	Herm of a Vestal Virgin (Getty Museum)
		Vestal Virgins, consecrated to Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth, served in temples as guardians of an eternal, sacred flame and were expected to emulate the goddess's purity and chastity.
		In his representation of one of these women, sculptor Antonio Canova suggested her innocence through the austerity and sparseness of the Neoclassical style, drawing on the contemporary idea that classical forms carry with them the expression of a strict morality.
		With the discovery of the so-called House of the Vestals in Pompeii, Vestal Virgins became a popular subject in the 1700s and 1800s.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1318 (211 words)

	The Rise of Rome
		During their service they were expected to remain virgins, for the Romans believed that to please the gods, women who were unmarried and not trying to bear children should remain chaste.
		The legend begins with a Vestal Virgin giving birth to twin boys and claiming that the boys had been fathered miraculously by the god Mars - a god of fertility and later also of war.
		The Vestal Virgin was the sister of a king.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch15.htm (8608 words)

	Not a myth, they were real... The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta in charge of maintaining the sacred fire ...
		The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta in charge of maintaining the sacred fire within the Temple of Vesta...
		The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta in charge of maintaining the sacred fire within the Temple of Vesta on the Forum Romanum.
		The vestal virgins were selected from distinguished patrician families at an age from three to ten.
	www.answerbag.com /a_view.php/2313 (394 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Romulus by Jacob Abbott
		A vestal virgin was a sort of priestess, who was required, like the nuns of modern times, to live in seclusion from the rest of the world, and devote their time wholly and without reserve to the services of religion.
		The place of this terrible preparation for punishment was near one of the gates of the city, and when all was ready the unhappy vestal was brought forth, at the head of a great public procession,—she herself being attended by her friends and relatives, all mourning and lamenting her fate by the way.
		The laws of the institution however evinced their high regard for the purity and modesty of the vestal maidens by requiring that the blows should be administered in the dark, the sufferer having been previously prepared to receive them by being partially undressed by her female attendants.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=romulus&story=rhea (3756 words)

	The Vestal Virgins of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although their number never exceeded six at a given time, the Vestal Virgins of Rome have been a focus of fascination for dozens of centuries.
		Chosen by lot from a group of specially selected, physically impeccable girls with two living parents, a Vestal entered the Order between her sixth and tenth year and was sworn to thirty years of chastity and demending service.
		A chief Vestal duty was tending the sacred fire in the round, peaked-roofed Temple of Vesta.
	www.angelfire.com /va2/vestalvirgins (358 words)

	Tivoli - Tomb of the Vestal Virgin Cossinia
		Tivoli - Tomb of the Vestal Virgin Cossinia
		If she had been a Vestal for sixty-six years, it means that she had entered the House of Vesta at an extremely early age, dedicating her life to the guardianship of the sacred fire.
		She could have retired after the age of thiry but preferred to remain there, thus gaining the admiration and respect of the Tiburtines, who wished to be near her at her funeral and burial.
	www.tibursuperbum.it /eng/monumenti/VestaleCossinia.htm (305 words)

	Forum Romanum: the Temple of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins
		House of the Vestal Virgins) was built, topographically and foundationwise a unity with the temple and the Regia (i.e.
		Originally, the Vestals were the daughters of the king(6), but after Rome became a republic, their members were usually drawn (by lot) from leading Roman families, at first patrician clans, but later on, other leading families produced Vestals as well.
		For the Vestal, there was no married life during her office and she was expected to be present at numous religious rituals, sacrifices and festivals, to conduct ceremonies together with the pontifices.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/634992 (3371 words)

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		Tradition attributes the institution of the Vestal Virgins to the second king of Rome after Romulus, Numa Pompilius (715-673BC) although as is suggested by Virgil's Aenid this possibly refers to Numa being the first to settle the Order and to build a temple to the goddess Vesta in Rome.
		Rather than the simple cells one might imagine the Vestals actually lived in apartments which recent excavations indicate to have been supplied with hot water (suggesting a degree of comfort).
	www.mariamilani.com /ancient_rome/The_Vestal_Virgins.doc (1390 words)

	Vestale, La (The Vestal Virgin) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Vestal virgin Julia finds herself divided between love and duty, drawn to her former betrothed, the victorious general, Licinius.
		He plans to abduct her from the temple, where she must watch over the sacred flame, and while he escapes blame for profaning the temple, she is condemned for his intrusion and for allowing the sacred flame to go out.
		This is taken as a sign of divine intervention on her behalf, and she and Licinius, whose attempts to exonerate her have failed, are re-united.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Vestale_La(The_Vestal_Virgin).htm (194 words)

	Gator Travels: Traveling in Europe
		Temple of Castor and Pollux - House of the Vestal Virgins - the three columns are the remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux.
		House of the Vestal Virgins - six Vestal Virgins where chosen from noble families lived here for a 30 year term.
		It contained an eternal flame that was maintained by the Vestal Virgin priestesses who lived across the street.
	www.gatortravels.com /photos/rome98_photos_7.html (217 words)

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