The Blessed Virgin speaks.
Daughter, know that when the three royal Magi came into the stable to adore my Son, I knew of their coming by prescience. And when they entered and adored him, then my Son exulted, and for joy wore a more cheerful countenance. I, too, rejoiced and exulted in wonderful joy of mind; observing their words and actions, retaining them and laying them up in my heart. — Lib. vii., c. 24.
CHAPTER IX.
THE PURIFICATION.
I did not need purification, like other women, because my son who was born of me, made me clean. Nor did I contract the least stain, who bore my most pure Son without any stain. Nevertheless, that the law and the prophecies might be fulfilled, I chose to live according to the law. Nor did I live like worldly parents, but humbly conversed with the humble. Nor did I wish to show any thing extraordinary in me, but loved whatever
