Think what must have been in the soul of the Virgin when, after the Incarnation, she possessed within her the Incarnate Word, the Gift of God… in what silence, what recollection, what adoration she must have been wrapped in the depth of her soul in order to embrace this God whose mother she was.
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
22 November 1903

William Henry Margetson (British, 1861–1940)
Oil on canvas, 1895
Victoria Art Gallery
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