Opera nuper in lucem prodeuntia

to whom she served, saying, "Accept Him whom you desired and for such a long time awaited, and make me yearn fervently for Him with all my strength, and sigh for Him day and night." After this to the apostles, "Accept Him whom you loved so ardently with your whole heart, and make me love Him fervently above all things in the deepest marrow of my heart." From there to the martyrs, saying, "Behold Him for whose love you shed your blood and handed over your bodies to death, and obtain that I may spend all my strength in His service." Approaching the confessors, she said, "Accept Him for whom you left all things and scorned the delights of the world, and make me for His love leave and scorn all earthly things and ascend to the summit of true religion." Hurrying to the virgins, she said, "Accept Him to whom you vowed your virginity, and make me persevere for His love in purity of mind and body, and triumph perfectly in all things." She saw there a virgin who had recently died, whom she recognized well because she had been familiar to her on earth, with whom she conferred, "Is it as you told me while you were still living?" To whom she answered, "In truth, all things are so, now I find it centupled." After this, she returned to the Lord when she had circled the perimeter of the heavenly palace, for He took that cup and placed it into the heart of the soul, and thus she was happily united to God.

How the Blessed Virgin is to be saluted.
In the advent of the Lord, when she desired to salute the glorious Virgin Mary, she was taught by the Lord as follows. Salute, He said, the virginal heart of my mother in the abundance of all goods, by which it was very useful to men, namely, because it was