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Holy Ghost came down upon him in visible form; and
in the presence of the Lady He began to write the words
as they are still extant in his Gospel. The blessed Mary
then left him and saint Matthew proceeded in his history,
finishing it in Judea. He wrote it in the Hebrew language
in the year forty-two of our Lord.
561. The Evangelist Mark wrote his gospel four years
later, in the forty-sixth year after the birth of Christ. He
likewise wrote it in Hebrew and while in Palestine. Be
fore commencing he asked his guardian angel to notify
the Queen of heaven of his intention and to implore her
assistance for obtaining the divine enlightenment for
what he was about to write. The kind Mother heard his
prayer and immediately the Lord commanded the angels
to carry Her with the usual splendor and ceremony to
the Evangelist, who was still in prayer. The great
Queen appeared to him seated on a most beautiful
and resplendent throne. Prostrating himself before Her,
he said : "Mother of the Savior of the world and Mis
tress of all creation, I am unworthy of this favor, though
I am a servant of thy divine Son and of Thyself. The
heavenly Mother answered: "The Most High, whom
thou servest and lovest, sends me to assure thee, that thy
prayers are heard and that his holy Spirit shall direct
thee in the writing of the Gospel, with which He has
thee."
charged Then She told him not to write of the
mysteries pertaining to Her, just as She had asked of
saint Matthew. Immediately the Holy Ghost, in visible
and most refulgent shape, descended upon saint Mark,
enveloping him in light and filling
him with interior
enlightenment; and in the presence of the Queen he be
gan to write his Gospel. At that time the Princess of
heaven was sixty-one years of age. Saint Jerome says,
that saint Mark wrote his short Gospel in Rome, at the
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