7/26 The Angel, book in hand, greets her with an AVE, thus transposing the name EVA, _mutans Evae nomen_. Or again, with her feet resting on the crescent moon, she rises to the highest heaven: _Exaltata est super choros angelorum_. Further, from Jesus Christ she receives the precious crown: _Posuit in capite ejus coronam de lapide pretioso_. In gems of painted glass, church windows portrayed the figures of Mary's virginity; the stone which Daniel saw dug from the mountain by no human hand, Gideon's fleece, Moses' burning bush, and Aaron's budding rod. Abbe Mignard, _La Sainte Vierge_, Paris, 1877, in 8vo, pp. |