[Copiae indulgentiarum de institutione festi Praesentationis beatae Mariae virginis concessarum]

of what virtue she exists, let us see. But what do you think, what kind of person was she once, or is she now, who is set before all saints to be looked upon and imitated? However, it is right to instruct in this first of all: that her soul and the flesh which the Wisdom of God the Father chose and made a dwelling place for itself was most pure from all malice and uncleanness, for in her and through her the Word became flesh, the Scripture saying: "Wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins" Wisdom 1:4. Therefore, among all the saints, the memory of this most blessed Virgin is celebrated all the more frequently, the greater the grace she is believed to have found before God. This Virgin Mary, indeed, was announced by divine oracles and designated by miracles before she was born. Finally, born of a lineage divinely ordained; born, indeed, as we read, of a Nazarene father and a Bethlehemite mother, which cities the prophets did not keep silent were destined for her birth or life. Moreover, she descended from the root of that illustrious stock of Abraham, to whom was promised from above