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 1 9 |       their stand on the words of St. Gabriel the archangel,
 2 10|                 10. So it is that St. Ephrem, burning with poetic
 3 11|                               11. St. Gregory Nazianzen calls
 4 14|          found in the writings of St. Jerome where he makes the
 5 14|     Syrian Language."15 After him St. Chrysologus says the same
 6 17|                               17. St. Andrew of Crete frequently
 7 19|                      19. Likewise St. Germanus speaks to the
 8 20|              20. She is called by St. John Damascene "Queen,
 9 21|                   21. And finally St. Ildephonsus of Toledo gathers
10 23|           century Our predecessor St. Martin I called Mary "our
11 23|    glorious Lady, ever Virgin."27 St. Agatho, in the synodal
12 23|          II in the letter sent to St. Germanus, the patriarch,
13 25|         25. For all these reasons St. Alphonsus Ligouri, in collecting
14 34|          So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: "
15 36|         as the devout disciple of St. Anselm (Eadmer, ed.) wrote
16 40|  surpassed every creature," sings St. Sophronius. "What can be
17 40|     received from God"?52 To this St. Germanus adds: "Your honor
18 40|          above the angels."53 And St. John Damascene goes so
19 42|         distribution of graces;57 St. Pius X adds that she fills
20 52| Benediction. ~Given at Rome, from St. Peter's, on the feast of