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NOTES 1. John 14:6. 2. John 19:26. 3. Cf. True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, “Fifth Motive for This Devotion.” 4. Gabriel Garcia-Moreno, president of Ecuador in the mid-nineteenth century, was martyred for the Faith by Freemasons after receiving Holy Communion. He died in 1875. 5. Ephes. 2:3. 6. “Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: conceptus est homo.” (Job 3:3). 7. Canticle of Canticles, 4:7. 8. Saint Bernard. Second sermon on the words of the Gospel “Missus est angelus Gabriel” (The angel Gabriel was sent”). 9. Matins, Response after the sixth lesson. 10. Luke 1:66. 11. Isaiah 53:3—“Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity.” 12. This work was written prior to the 1950 dogmatic definition of the Assumption, in which Pope Pius XII carefully avoided defining whether the Blessed Virgin experienced a true death or simply a dormition. 13. “Me reputabam vilissimam et gratia Dei indignam.” Quoted by Saint Alphonsus Liguori in The Glories of Mary in discussing her humility. 14. Saint Bernard, Homilia…super Missus est. 15. Transl. Note: Fenelon was a priest and writer of the seventeenth century. He is known for his criticism of the political regime of Louis XIV. His Explanations of Maxims of the Saints was condemned by the Church for its quietism. He is nonetheless considered one of France’s great thinkers of that time. 16. Matt 26:33-35. 17. Cf. Matt 21:28-32. 18. Homilia 2 super Missus. 19. Canticle of Canticles 4:9.
20. Luke 1:28. 21. Luke 1:30. 22. Luke 1:31-33. 23. Luke 1:34. 24. Luke 1:35-37. 25. Psalm 21:7. 26. Luke 1:38. 27. Matt 1:16 Jacob autem genuit Joseph, virum Maria de qua natus est Jesus, qui vocatur Christus. 28. Cf. Saint Epiphanius, Homil. 5a in Laud. S. M. V. 29. “Ad fines divinitatis propria operatione attigit.” Summa Theologica, IIII, q. 103, art 4, ad. 2. 30. Isaiah 1:11. 31. Luke 3:22. 32. Luke 2:51. 33. Luke 17:17. 34. Luke 1:39. 35. John 13:34-35 and 15:12-13. 36. Luke 1:43. 37. Luke 1:46-51. 38. Luke 1:44: “Exultavit in gaudio infans in utero meo.” 39. Canticle of Canticles 5:2. 40. Luke 6:19: “Virtus de illo exibat et sanabat omnes.” 41. Matt 9:22. 42. Matt 8:13: “Sicut credidisti, fiat tibi.” 43. Luke 2:44. 44. Psalm 22:4. 45. Luke 2:48. 46. Luke 2:49. 47. Luke 2:29-30. 48. Luke 2:35. 49. Matt. 27:42. 50. Matt. 27:46. 51. Gen. 21:16. 52. Lam.1:12. 53. Matt. 3:17 and 17:5. 54. Cf. John 12:32. 55. John 19:27. 56. Saint Epiphanius, Contre les Hérétiques, Book III, n. 78. 57. See note 12. 58. Luke19:10.