Wikipedia's article on the consecrated virgin, read directly for this pass, states the state existed in early Christian times and had become rare enough that by 1927 the Vatican itself stated the consecration "had long fallen out of use." Pope Paul VI's revised rite, Ordo Consecrationis Virginum, approved and published 31 May 1970 following the Second Vatican Council's 1963 call for its revision, restored the consecration for women living in the world as well as nuns in monastic orders, the form of life found in the early Church. No precise year for when the rite fell into disuse is given by the source.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 31 May 1970 publication date of Ordo Consecrationis Virginum is settled Catholic canonical history with no live dispute over the date; the exact year of the rite's earlier lapse is honestly not given by any source consulted, which is why its start is left open rather than dated. NotesCited for the 1970 restoration of the rite to women living in the world; the entity's existing practice-status fact reads only "Revived or reconstructed in the modern era" with no date on the structured side.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecrated_virgin
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