Chapter CL. Of his devotion to our Lady, to whom he specially committed the Order

198. To the Mother of Jesus he bore unspeakable love, for that she made the Lord of Majesty our brother. To her he rendered peculiar praises, poured forth prayers, and made offerings of affection, the number and quality whereof the tongue of man could not express. But — what most rejoices us — he constituted her the Advocate of the Order and placed beneath her wings the sons whom he was about to leave, that she might cherish and protect them unto the end. O Advocate of the poor, fulfil thou to us the office of Protectress until the time foreordained of the Father!