Carlo Crivelli – Madonna and Child with Saints, 1490

It was due to His own infinite sanctity that God should suspend, in this instance, the law which His divine justice had passed upon all the children of Adam. The relations which Mary was to bear to the Divinity, could not be reconciled with her undergoing the humiliation of this punishment. 

— Dom Gueranger, O.S.B., on the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which is celebrated today

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