Peter Paul Rubens Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world - Matthew 25:34
He showed me [His Mother's] ascend to heaven, the happiness and solemnity with which she was received, and the place where she is...The glory my spirit experienced in seeing so much glory was magnificent. The effects of this favour were great. (St Teresa of Avila, 'Collected Works' 1:353)
He showed me [His Mother's] ascend to heaven, the happiness and solemnity with which she was received, and the place where she is...The glory my spirit experienced in seeing so much glory was magnificent. The effects of this favour were great. (St Teresa of Avila, 'Collected Works' 1:353)
Among his favourite feasts, besides those of the Blessed
Trinity and Corpus Christ, were the feasts of the Blessed Virgin. In his prison
cell, on the Vigil of the Assumption, after nine months of severe privation, he
was asked what he was thinking of. He replied, “I was thinking that tomorrow is
the feast of our Lady and that it would give me great joy to say Mass”. The
sight of an image of the Mother of God brought love and brightness to his soul. (St John of the Cross, The Collected Works, A Portrait of the Saint)
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