115. WIDOW (Vidua).
The state of widowers and of widows, and concerning repeated marriages (1287-1299 [CL 317-325]). The state of widowhood is not the same as the state of marriage, and it differs from it in general and in particular according to the state of the marriage in which one has been (1289-1292 [CL 319, 320]).
The state of the widow is not the same as the state of the widower, but differs from it (1294 [CL 325]).
It is allowable for any one to enter upon another marriage after the death of a consort (1295 [CL 54, 318-320]).
But they who have lived in love truly conjugial do not desire to enter upon another marriage after the consort's death, and they therefore cannot do so (1296 [CL 320, 321]).
The state of the marriage of a young man with a widow is different from the state of marriage with a virgin; so, too, the state of the marriage of a virgin with a widower; also of a widower with a widow (1297-1299 [CL 322, 323]).
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