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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p2
The Virgin Mary came back from her journey. She called the girl before her, and asked to have the keys of heaven back. “Hast thou not opened the thirteenth door also?” “No,” she replied. She perceived the finger which had become golden from touching the fire of heaven, and saw well that the child had sinned, and said for the third time “Hast thou not done it?” “No,” said the girl for the third time. Then said the Virgin Mary, “Thou hast not obeyed me, and besides that thou hast lied, thou art no longer worthy to be in heaven.” In the desert, in which she was imprisoned, there stood…
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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p1
By a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife and an only child. One morning there stood before him the Virgin Mary, She took her up to heaven with her. When she was fourteen years of age, the Virgin Mary called her one day and said, “Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself.” She sought out…
