December 10 — Saint Eulalia, Virgin and Martyr

The Church of Spain, the fair pearl of Christendom, brings before us on this same tenth of December her illustrious Martyr Eulalia, the glory of Merida, the ornament of Iberia, the joy of the universal Church. She is the third of those Wise Virgins, whose names are most prominent in the Church's liturgy during the season of Advent. She is the worthy companion of Bibiana, and Barbara, and that heroic Lucy whose feast we shall keep on the thirteenth. We give the whole of the beautiful poem on the life and martyrdom of Eulalia, written by Prudentius. Never, perhaps, did this prince of Christian poets write finer verses than these ; nor can we be surprised that the Mozarabic Liturgy, in its admiration of this exquisite canticle, should have made but one Hymn of its forty-five stanzas. As it gives the Life of our Saint, we shall not add the Legend of the Proper Office as used in the Churches of Spain.

HYMN.

Germine nobilis Eulalia, Mortis et indole nobilior, Emeritam sacra virgo suam, Cujus ab ubere progenita est, Ossibus ornat, amore colit.

Proximus occiduo locus est, Qui tulit hoc decus egregiuin,

Eulalia, noble by birth, but still nobler by her death, was born at Merida ; and this city the holy virgin adorns with her relics, and 'cherishes with her loving protection.

Where the sun sets, there lies the birth-place of this dbyGoogk

DEC. 10. S1 splendid heroine : it is a

Eowerful and populous city, ut its proudest title to fame is that there the Saint shed her blood, and there rests her shrine.

But thrice four winters had passed over Eulalia, when she craved the fierce tortures of fire, and made her executioners tremble by her courage, suffering as though it were sweet to suffer.

Already had she proved to men that she would have no Spouse but God, and that earthly nuptials were too poor for her. Though but a girl, she despised the toys and sports of children.

Perfumes and wreaths of roses, and golden trinkets, all were beneath her. Her look demure, her gait modest, her whole conduct, even at that tender age, as though the gravity of old age were upon it.

But when a rabid persecution began to threaten the servants of God, and the Christians were commanded to burn incense and the flesh of victims before the dead gods of the pagans.

Oh! then did EulahVs soul chafe within her, and her high spirit thirst for the battle ! She, a girl, defies the threats of men that talk of war, for her heart pants after God.

But her fond mother trembles for her courageous child, and insists on her keeping at home. She takes her into the country, as far as may be trom the city, lest the daunt-

Urbe potens, populis locuples :

Sed mage sanguine martyrii Virgineoque potens titulo.

Curriculis tribus, atque novem

Tres hyemes quater attigerat, Quum crepitante pyra trepidos

Terruit aspera carnifices, Supplicium sibi dulce rata. Jam dederat prius indicium,

Tendere se Patris ad solium, Nec sua membra dicata toro. Ipsa crepundia repulerat, ' Ludere nescia pusiola.

Spernere succina, flare rosas,

Fulva monilia respuere : Ore severa, modesta gradu, Moribus et nimium teneris Canitiem meditata senum.

Ast ubi se f uriata lues Excitat in famulos Domini, Christicolasque cruenta jubet Thura cremare. jecur pecudis Mortiferis adolere dei&

Infremuit sacer Eulaliae Spiritus, ingeniique ferox Turbida frangere Delia parat, Et, rude pectus anhela Deo, Feminaprovocat arma virum.

Sed pia cura parentis agit,

Virgo animosa domi ut lateat.

Abdita rare, et ab urbe procul :

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450 AD\

Ne f era sanguinis in pretium Mortis amore puella mat.

Ula perosa quietis opem Degeneri tolerare mora, Nocte fores sine teste movet, Septaque claustra fugax aperit, Inde per in via carpit iter.

Ingreditur pedibus laceris Per loca senta situ, et vepribus,

Angelico comitata choro : Et Beet horrida nox sileat, Lucis habettamenilladucem.

Sic habuitgenerosapatrum Turba columniferum radium: Scindere qui tenebrosa potens,

Nocte viam face perspicua Praestitit, intereunte chao.

Non aliter pia virgo, viam Nocte secuta, diem meruit, Nec tenebris adoperta fuit, Kegna canopica quum fugeret,

Et super astra pararet iter.

Ula gradu cita pervigili, Millia multa prius peragit, Quarn plaga pandat eoa polum :

Mane superba tribunal adit, Fascibus adstat et in mediis.

Vociferans : Rogo, quis furor est Perdere praecipites animas, Et male prodiga corda sui Sternere rasilibus scopulis, Omnipatremque negare Deum?

less child, that longed to die for Christ, should seek to purchase that glory at the price of her blood.

She ill brooks this quiet, this shelter which seems to her so unchristian : the night comes on ; she is alone ; she forces open the doors, and escaping from her inclosure, she tends she knows not whither.

The paths are rugged, and thorns prick her feet at every step ; yet on she goes, with Angels in her company. All is silent in the dark grim night; but she has light which leads her.

As our fathers, that brave Hebrew band, had of old a pillar of light, which piercing the murky gloom of night, led them on by its bright blaze, and turned darkness into day ;

So this holy maid ; in her midnight journey, God gave her light ; and as she fled from the land of Egypt, to enter into that of heaven, she was not hindered by the darkness.

Many a mile had she walked with her hasty step, before the day-dawn broke upon the world : and scarce had morn begun, when there stood before the tribunal, amidst the ensigns of the empire, the f earless Virgin.

"What madness is this,,, she cried, " which makes you " lose your unthinking souls 1 " wasting away your love in " adoring these chiselled " lumps of stone, whilst you " deny God the Father of all]

Quaeritis, O miseranda manus, genus 1 En ego sum Dsemonicis inimica sacris : Idola protero, sub pedibus : Pectore, et ore Deum fateor.

"O "wretched men ! you 44 are in search of the Chris- " tians : lo ! I am one ; I Christicoluni 44 hate your worship of devils : 44 1 trample on your idols ; 44 and with heart and mouth 44 1 acknowledge but one God.

"Isis, Apollo, Venus, all Isis, Apollo, Venus, nihil est. Maximianus et ipse nihil : nihil, quia facta manu : manuum quia facta co- "riothing. Frivola utraque, et utraque

44 are nothing . Maximian, 44 too, is nothing ; they, be- 44 cause they are idols ; he, 111a 44 because he worships idols ; Hie 44 both are vain, both are lit : nihil.

Maximianus opum dominus, Et tamen ipse cliens lapidum, Prostituat, voveatque suis Numinibus caput ipse suum : Pectora cur generosa quatit 1

44 Maximian calls himself 44 lord, and yet he makes him- 44 self a slave of stones, ready 44 to give his very head to 44 such gods. And why does 44 he persecute them that have 44 nobler hearts 1

Dux bonus, arbiter egregius Sanguine pascitur innocuo : piis inhiaus Viscera sobria dilacerat, Gaudet et excruciare fidem.

44 This good Emperor, this 44 most upright Judge, feeds 44 on the olood of the inno- 44 cent. He gluts himself on Corporibusque 44 the bodies of the saints, 44 embowel ling those temples 44 of purity, and cruelly in- 44 suiting their holy faith. seca, membra coacta luto. Solvere rem fragilem facile fragile vase like est : Non penetrabitur interior dolore animus.

44 Do thy worst, thou cruel Ergo age, tortor, adure, 44 butcher ; burn, cut, tear 44 asunder these clay-made Divide 44 bodies. It is no hard thing 44 to break a 44 this. But all thy tortures 44 cannot reach the soul." Exagitante

Talibus excitus in furias ait : Eape praecipiet obrue suppliciis : Sentiat, esse deos patrios, Nec leve principis imperium.

At these words the Praetor, maddening with rage, cried Praetor, out : 44 Away, Lictor, with tern, 44 this senseless prattler, and Lictor, 44 punish her in every way 44 thou canst. Teach her that 44 our country's gods are gods, 44 and that out sovereign's 44 words are not to be slighted.

452 ADV

Quam cnperem tamen ante necem,

Si potis est, revocare tuam, Torva puellula, nequitiam ! Respice, gaudia quanta metas.

Quae tibi fert genialis honor.

Te lacrymis labefacta domus

Prosequitur, generisque tui Ingemit anxia nobilitas, Flore quod occidis in tenero, Proxinia dotibus et thalamo. Non movet aurea pompa tori,

Non pietasveneranda senum Quos temeraria debilitas 1 Ecce parata ministeria Excruciabilis exitii

Aut gladio feriere caput, Aut laniabere membra f eris, Aut facibus data f umificis, Flebiliterque ululanda tuis In cineres resoluta flues.

Haec, rogo, quis labor est fugere? Si modicum salis eminulis Thuris et exiguum digitis Tangere, virgo, benigna velis, Poena gravis procul abfuerit.

Martyr ad ista nihil : sed enim

Infremit, inque tyrrani ocu* los

Sputa jacit. Simulacra de* hinc

Dissipat, impositamque molam

Thuribulis pede prosubigit.

"Yet stay, rash girl ! "Would I could persuade "thee to recall thy impious " words before it is too late ! " Think on all the joys thou " thus wilt obtain ; think on " that noble marriage which "we will procure thee.

"Thy family is in search " of thee, and thy noble house "weeps and grieves after "thee, their tender floweret " so near its prime, yet so re- " solved to wither.

" What ! are nuptials like " these I offer not enough to " move thee 1 Wilt thou send " the grey hairs of thy parents " into the tomb by thy rash dis- " obedience ] Tremble at least "at all these fearful instrn- "ments of torture and death.

"There is a sword which " will sever thy head ; there "are wild beasts to tear thee " to pieces : there are fires on " which to Durn thee, leaving " to thy family but thy ashes " to weep over.

" And what do we ask of "thee in order that thou "mayest escape these tor- " tures ? Do, I beseech thee, " Eulalia, touch but with the "tip of thy finger these " grains of salt and incense, " and not a hair of thy head "shall be hurt."

The Martvr answered him not : but full of indignation, spat in the tyrant's face; then, with her foot, upsets idols, eakes, and incense.

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Scarce had she done it, two executioners seize her : they tear her youthful breast, and, one on each side, cut off her innocent flesh even to the very ribs. Eulalia counts each gash, and says :

"See, dear Jesus, they "write thee on my flesh! "Beautiful letters, that tell " of thy victory ! O, how I " love to read them ! So, " this red stream of my blood " speaks thy holy name !"

Thus sang the joyous and intrepid virgin ; not a tear, not a moan. The sharp tortures reach not her soul. Her body is all stained with the fresh blood, and the warm stream trickles down the snow-white skin.

But this was not the end. It was not enough to plough and harrow up her flesh : it was time to burn : torches, then, are applied to her sides and breast.

Her beateous locks dishevelled fell veiling her from worse than all their butchery, the stare of these wretches.

The crackling flame mounts to her face, and, running through her hair, surrounds and blazes over her head. The virgin, thirsting for death, opens her mouth and drinks it in.

Suddenly is seen a snow-white dove coming from the martyr's mouth, and flying up

Nec mora, carnifices gemini

Juncea pectora dilacerant, Et latus ungula yirgineum Pulsat utrinque, et ad ossa secat,

Eulalia numerante notas. Scriberis ecce mihi, Domine, uam juvat hos apices legere, ui tua, Christe, trophea notant !

Nomen et ipsa sacrum loquitur

Purpura sanguinis eliciti. Hsec sine fletibus, et gemitu

Laeta canebat, et intrepida. Dirus abest dolor ex animo. Membraque picta cruore novo

Fonte cutem recalente lavant

Ultima carnificina dehinc, Non laceratio vulnifica Crate tenus nec arata cutis : Flamma sed undique lam- padibus In latera, stomachumque furit.

Crinis odorus et in jugulos

Fluxerat, involitans humeris,

9uo pudibunda pudicitia, irgine usque lateret honos, Tegmine verticis opposito. Flamma crepans volat in faciem,

Perque comas vegetata, caput Occupat, exsuperatque apicem :

Virgo, citum cupiens obitum, Appetit, et bibit ore rogum. Emicat inde columba repens,

Martyris os nive candidior

454 ADV

Visa relinquere, et astra sequi : Spirit us hie erat Eulaliae Lacleolus, celer, innocuus. Colla fluunt, abeunte ani- ma,

Et rogus igneus emoritur ; Pax datur artubus exanimis, Flatus in aethera plaudit ovans,

Templaque celsa petit volucer.

Vidit et ipse satelles avem

Feminae ab ore meare palam, Obs tu pef actus, et attonitus Prosilit, et sua gesta fugit, Lictor et ipse fugit pavidus.

Ecce nivem glacialis hyems Ingerit, et tegit omne forum : Membra tegit simul Eulaliae, Axe jacentia sub gelido, Pallioli vice linteoli

Cedat amor lacrymantum hominum, Qui celebrare suprema solent, Flebile cedat et officium : Ipsa eleinenta, jubente Deo, Exsequias tibi, virgo, ferunt.

Nunc locus Emerita. est tumulo Clara colonia Vettoniae : Quam memorabilis amnis

Ana

Praeterit, et viridante rapax Gurgite maenia pulchra lav it. Hie, ubi marmore perspicuo

Atria luminat alma nit or Et peregrinus, et indigena, Relliquias, cineresque sacros

Servat humus veneranda sinu. to heaven. It was Eulalia's spirit, spotless, eager, innocent

Her soul is fled : her head droops, the fire dies out : her lifeless body sleeps in peace, while her glad spirit keeps feast in its ethereal home, and this sweet dove rests in the house of her most High God.

The executioners, too, see the dove issuing from the martyr's mouth : astonished and trembling they flee from the spot. The lictor, too, is seized with fear and takes to flight.

'Tis winter, and the snow in thick flakes falls on the forum, covering the tender corpse of Eulaua, which lay stiffening in the cold, with its fair pall of crystal.

Ye men that mourn at funerals, weeping and sobbing out your love for the dead, ye are not needed here : give place. God bids his elements. O Eulalia, do the honours of thy exequies.

Her tomb is now at Merida, illustrious city of Vettonia, whose beautiful walls are washed by the swift green waters of Ana, that celebrated stream.

'Tis there, in a temple rich with its polished marbles, both of Spain and foreign lands, that repose in a venerable tomb the holy relics of the martyr.

DEC. 10. ST. EULALIA.

The roof, above, glitters with its golden pendents ; and the pavement, with its mosaics, looks like a meadow strewed with the gayest flowers.

Cull the purple violet, and the golden crocus, which even winter spares us, and with its hours of sunshine lets our fields yield plentifully enough to deck our Eulalia's altar.

Twine them into your green garlands, and these be your offering, dear children ! Mine shall be these verses for our choir ; poor I know they are and savouring of the dulness of my own old age ; still, they suit a feast.

Thus will we venerate Eulalia's relics and Eulalia's altar : she, standing before the throne of God, will be pleased with our offerings, and hearing our hymns and prayers will protect her devoted people.

Tecta corusca super rutilant

De laquearibus aureolis, Saxaque csesa solum variant, Floribus ut rosulenta putes Prata rubescere multimodis.

Carpite purpureas violas, Sanguineosque crocos metitite :

Non caret his genialis hyems, Laxat et arva tepens glacies, Floribus ut cumulet calathos;

Ista comantibus e foliis Munera, virgo, puerque,date; Ast ego serta choro in medio

Texta feram pedo dactylico, Vilia, marcida, festa tamen.

Sic venerarier ossa libet, Ossibus altar et impositum : Ilia Dei sita sub pedibus Prospicit haec, populosque suos * Carmine propitiata fovet.

Nothing can surpass the magnificence of the prayers of the Missal and Breviary of the Mozaiabic Liturgy for this feast. Out of a score of examples which we could here insert, we select, almost at hazard, two from the Missal ; but they will give only a faint idea of the jeloquence with which the love for her Martyr Eulalia inspired this ancient Church of Spain.

PRAYER.

Let virginity be glad in thee, O Lord, we beseech thee ; and with it let rejoice its sister- virtue of continency. Battles like these are won not by sex but by courage ; not

QRATIO.

Laetetur in te, Domine, quaeso virginitas : et huic proxima congaudeat continentia. Non sexum quaerunt hujus modi bella : sed animum. Non mucronis con-

456 AD fidentiam, sed pudoris. Non etiam personas discussuras, sed causas. Impune inter armatas transit acies innocens conscientia: qua superavit crimina, superat et metalla. Facile vincit alios quisquis se vicerit ; et cum laudabile sit viro fecisse virtutem, majoris tamen prseconii est fecisse virginem rem virilem. Prophanum sacra ingreditur puella concilium : et solum Deum in pectore gestans infertviolentiampassioni. Nec deest lictor tarn impudens quam crudelis : qui sponsam (secure dixerinV) Christi, f ornicantium verberibus oculorum, supplicio libidinante toroueret : ut quae pcenas in adulterio non luebat, saltern pcenas adulteras sustineret. Dudum quod gra vius carnif ex putat, exspectantium oculis corpus exponit, et per divaricates viscerum partes, ictuum sulcos cursus fusi sanguinis antecedit. Periit tunc tortoris iniqui commentum: sola patiuntur tormenta ludibrium. Habet quidem virginem nostram nuditas, sed pudicam. Discat ergo, discat uterque sexus ex virgine, non pulcnritudinem colere, sed virtutem : fidem amare, non formam. Placiturus Domino, non decoris exspectare judicium, sed pudoris. Sed quia tuum est, Christe, totum quod meruit : tuum etiam quod peregit. Nec enim tela repellimus adversantium, nisi tuse divinitatis beneficio sublevemur. Nunc praesta nobis, by them that can well wield the sword, but by them that can be chaste ; not by the combatant's title, but by hia motive. An innocent conscience fears not an armed legion. He that has vanquished sin, will not flinch at a sword. He that has conquered himself, easily conquers others : and if it be

Praiseworthy when a man oes a virtuous act, it is more so when a virgin does a manly deed. The holy virgin Eu+ lalia stands before a tribunal of ungodly men ; and with God alone in her heart, she bids defiance to all their tortures. There comes a Lictor as lustful as he is cruel : he punishes this spouse of Christ as we may indeed call her, by the torture of his impure looks ; and she that could have no adultery to atone for, suffered its pumshment from him that had. He reserves to the last what he knew was the worst ; he exposes her body to the gaze of the spectators, and the stream of blood from the open gashes on her sides stains her flesh before the knife can open deeper wounds. Then was confounded the design of the wicked tormentor, and his torments are insulted by the victim. Impiety strips our Martyr, but modesty veils her. Let all, then, learn from this virgin to cultivate not beauty but virtue, nor form but faith. He that would please the Lord must be tried

DEC. 10; £ not for how much comeliness he possesses, but for how muck modesty he has. And yet, O Jesus ! since it was from thee that Eulalia had all her merits, and from thee all that she achieved, (for it is in vain that we would repel the darts of our enemies, unless we be shielded by thy divine mercy) ; grant, we beseech thee, that, as this thy most holy martyr won, by her combat, the reward of chastity, we also may be forgiven the uncleanness of our sins, and obtain the rewards thou hast promised.

ILLATION.

It is meet and just jbhat we give thee thanks, O Lord, our God ! who hast raised to the highest glory this most wise virgin that was loyal to the faith. Thus didst thou, that madest Mary be the Mother of Jesus, make Eulalia be a Martyr of J esus. The Mother was happy in giving him birth ; the Martyr in giving him her life. The Mother ministered to his Incarnation ; the Martyr imitated his Passion. Mary believed the Angel that appeared to her ; Eulalia withstood the enemy that tormented her. Mary was chosen by whom Christ should be born ; Eulalia was elected by whom the devil should be conquered. Eulalia, the Martyr and Virgin, was indeed worthy to please her Lord, for, by the protection of the Holy ut sicut haec beatissima Martyr tua pugnando praemium adepta estcastitatis ; ita nos commissorum nostrorum ad te dimissis contagiis, adipiscamur prsemia tuse promissionis.

ILLATIO.

Dignum et justum est, Deus, qui tem virginem fidei sociatam apice gloriae consecrasti, tibi gratias agere : Ut per q uem facta est mater Maria, neret affectu felix, ista moriendi. Ilia implens Incamationis officium, ista rapiens passionis exemplum : ilia credidit

Do* mine tarn pruden- Martyr Eulalia : illapariendi An- felo, ista resistit inimico. lla electa per quam Christua nasceretur : ista assumpta per quam diabolus vinceretur. Digna re Eulalia Martyr et Virgo placitura Domino suo : quae, Spiritu Sancto protegente, tenero sexu bellum forte sudaverit : et ultra opinionem human® virtutis ad tolerantiam poenarum zelo tui amoris se obtulerit : quum in specie pretiosi Unigeniti tui sanguinem suum sub testimonio

458 Am bonae confessionis effuderit : et iucorrupta flammis viscera in odorem suavissimi thymiamatis adoleverit. Vadit ad tribunal cruenti praesidis, non quaesita. In qua tarn solum fuit animus incontinens ad secretum, quam locus competens ad triumphum. Lucratura regnum, contemptura supplicium, inventura

Suaesituni, visura confessum. Ton trepida de poena, non ambigua de corona, non defessa de equuleo, non diffisa de praemio. Interrogatur, confitetur, occiditur, coronatur. Ingentique miraculo majestas tua exhalatum Virgiuis spiritum, quem assumpsit per flammam, suscepit per columbam. Ut hoc prodigio in coelis Martyr ascenderet, quo in terris Filiuni Pater ostenderet. Siquidem nec inhonorum patiuntur elementa corpusculum, quod deciduis nix aspersa velleribus, et virtutis rigorem et virginitatis tecta candorem eluceret, vestiret, absconderet. Superni velaminis operimento, coejum funeri praestat exsequias, et per misericordiam Kedemptoris daret animae sedem pro sepultura redderit dignitatem.

Ghost, she, a young maiden, waged a fierce war ; she, that with more than human strength, made herself, for thy love, a victim of suffering ; she, that for the sake of thy beloved Son, shed her blood in the noble confession of her faith, and offered to him, as a fragrance of sweetest incense, the flesh which fire could not consume. She goes unbidden to the tribunal of the cruel persecutor. As fit as was the place for a triumph, so bold was her spirit to speak the secret of her faith. She wants a kingdom, she cares not for tortures, she would find Him she longs for, she would see Him that she confesses. Fearless of pain, certain of a crown, happy on her rack, hopeful of her prize. She is questioned, she confesses • men put her to death, God gives her the crown. By an admirable miracle, the Virgiu's spirit, which thy divine Majesty didst draw from its prison by a flame, thou didst take to thyself as a Dove* thus, under the same symbol whereby thou didst show thy Son to the earth, did thy Martyr ascend into heaven. Neither did the elements withhold their homage ; but over her body, which remained on the earth, they form a snowy canopy, that beautifies, and covers, and hides that body where there had ever been the inflexibility of virtue and the unsullied lily

DEC. 10. ST. EULALIA. of virginity. Whilst thus her body lay palled in the coverlet of heaven's making, her soul was placed, by the mercy of our Redeemer, on its throne. Rich compensation for the burial which men denied her !

And we too, O glorious Martyr, would join our humble praises with these sublime expressions of the Church's love for thee. The love of Jesus so filled thy heroic soul, that torments could not torture thee; nay, they satisfied thy love by giving thee to suffer for him, until thy whole heart should be filled by possessing him. And yet, with all this ardour which heeds no obstacle, with all this noble daring which makes thee confront a tyrant and a furious rabble, nothing is more gentle and meek than thy loving spirit. Pray for us to Him who made thee thus worthy to be his Spouse,. that we also may be courageous in the fight against the enemies of our salvation, and full of that tender love for Jesus which can alone preserve us from hardness and pride of heart.

O thou, the glory of Iberia ! O Dove of Peace, have pity on that Catholic land which prepared thee for heaven. Suffer not that the ancient faith grow dim in a country which, for ages, stood so prominent in the Catholic Church, as the faithful and fervent Spain. Pray for her, that the days of her trial may be shortened; that God may bring to nought the sacrilegious attempts of men, who have sworn to destroy his kingdom on earth ; that he give to the clergy of Spain the courage and energy of former days ; that he render fruitful the blood of her martyrs, who have already suffered ; that he take away those scandals, which so readily mislead the simple and the weak ; and lastly, that he efface not thy beloved Spain from the number of Catholic

ADVENT. nations, but spare, for the sake of the fathers, those among her children that are degenerate.

RESPONSORY OF ADVENT.

(Ambrorian Breviary, Fourth Sunday of Advent)

1$. Per Gabrieli Angeli 1$. A os, nunciatum est Virgini nounced Maria, et Verbum concepit e coelo : * Et ilium suscepit Gabriel ; modicus uterus, cui parvus fuerat mundus. . Spiritus * Sanctus in te ingredietur, et virtus Altissimi obumbratibi : * Et ilium suscepit modicus uterus, cui parvus message was anto the Virgin Maryby the mouth of the Angel and she conceived the Word from heaven : And the womb of a tender Virgin contained Him, whom the world was too little to bit contain. The Holy Ghost shall enter within thee^and fuerat mundus.