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CHAPTER XL
THE LORD, BY NEW FAVORS, RAISES THE MOST BLESSED
MARY ABOVE THE STATE DESCRIBED IN THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER OF THIS BOOK.
595. In the eighth chapter I have stated that the Queen
of heaven for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days
was nourished and maintained in the condition and state
described by the Evangelist, as described in the twelfth
chapter of the Apocalypse. That number of days made
up more or less three and a half years, and brought the
most blessed Mary to the sixtieth year of her life plus two
months and a few days and the forty-fifth of the Lord.
Just as the stone falls the more swiftly the closer it ap
proaches to its centre of gravity, so, in proportion as the
great Queen and Mistress of all the creatures advanced
toward the end of her most holy life, the more swift
became also the flight of her purest spirit and the impulse
of her desires to arrive at the centre of her eternal rest
and repose. From the moment of her Immaculate Con
ception She had issued forth like a vast river from the
ocean of Divinity, where She was conceived in the eternal
ages; and by the inundations of gifts, graces, favors,
virtues, merits and holiness, She was now grown in
greatness beyond the limited sphere of all creation. The
impetuous floods of her wisdom and love resistlessly
rushed back to unite themselves with the ocean of the In
finite; for thence She had isued only in order to shed
forth over and over again her maternal clemency upon
the Church (Eccles. 1,7).
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