She promised to remain a virgin forever

St. Thomas defines state of life in the following way: "'State,' [status] properly speaking, denotes a kind of position, whereby a thing is disposed with a certain immobility in a manner according with its nature… Hence it is again that even in human acts, a matter is said to have stability [statum] in reference to its own disposition in the point of a certain immobility or restfulness. Consequently matters which easily change and are extrinsic to them do not constitute a state among men, for instance that a man be rich or poor, of high or low rank, and so forth."