Italics Microform Brief Notes On Politics People And Places in Italy in 18
Italics Microform Brief Notes On Politics People And Places in Italy in 18
Frances Power Cobbe
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But, as the idea of Christ's bodily Resur- rection has not prevented his sepulchre from being the chosen shrine of Christendom since the days of Helena, it does not appear why that of Mary should have prevented her tomb from being a place of pilgrimage, resorted to with a fervour proportioned to her relative share of adoration. 318 ITALICS. ashamed to pray to God or to Christ for the gra- tification of their lower desires, but that they think they may ask of the Virgin, as of an over- indulgent... human mother, every kind of thing they may covet — money, honour, success in love, vengeance, or a prize lottery ticket. Thus people pray to Mary out of wickedness, not virtue ; and the favour in which her worship is found is a standard to gauge the depravity of the age. There is, I suppose, some degree of truth in this view. No doubt school girls, French and Italian (as they have told me themselves), do pray to the Virgin with the full sanction of their convent-school teachers, for new- frocks, bon* bons, escape from punishment and specially de- lightful holidays.
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