Art historians point to numerous paintings of female virgin saints similarly dressed, and believe that this look was fashionable for women's dresses at the time.

Euphrosyne is the only virgin saint of East Slav origin.

She affected a stance of virtue, like a painting of a unionist virgin saint.

His eyes hardened to rivet on me with the piercing glare of a virgin saint.

Like many other female virgin saints, she is described as beautiful and desirable, but she refused her numerous suitors in favor of religious devotion.

Yet both virgin saint and unrepentant sinner must fall within the range of humanity.

Dachuna was a medieval virgin saint venerated in Cornwall.

You shall not be deprived of your share in the delight of visiting the virgin saint and paying honour to her.

What, a gentle virgin saint, to take such vengeance on a good man?

Santa Lucia, the virgin saint who had her eyes put out, is traditionally invoked against blindness.