Tuesday, April 8, 2014

"it was never heard that an angel showed reverence to a man until he saluted the blessed virgin, saying reverently, 'Hail'."

"Quod autem Angelus faceret homini reverentiam, nunquam fuit auditum, nisi postquam salutavit beatam virginem, reverenter dicens, ave."

     St. Thomas Aquinas, Expositio salutationis angelicae =Super Ave Maria (1273), a. 1, trans. Ralph McInerny (Thomas Aquinas: selected writings, ed. & trans. Ralph McInerny (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1998), 823).

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