his friends took down our Lord, whom his pious mother received in her holy arms, and inclined him, sitting on her knee, all wounded, torn, and livid; and then his dolorous mother wiped his whole body and wounds with her veil, and closed his eyes, kissing them, and wrapped him in a clean winding-sheet, and thus they bore him, with great wailing and grief, and laid him in the sepulchre. — Lib. vii., c. 15.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE DEATH OF OUR LORD.
The Blessed Virgin speaks.
At the death of my Son, all things were disturbed. For the divinity which was never separated from him, not even in death, in that hour of his death, seemed to partake of his suffering, although the divinity could suffer no pair; or penalty, being impassible and immutable.
My Son suffered pain in all his members, and even in his heart, which, nevertheless, being divine is immortal; his soul, also,
