Catholics believe she died a virgin because the mother of Christ had to be so pure she would never engage in sex
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The Essenes were known by the Jews of the time as the weird purity ascetics who eschewed marriage, washed themselves ritually, etc
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John the Baptist in the Gospels is sort of an archetypal Essene and Jesus comes off as a heterodox populist version of their beliefs
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