BLessed-MotherSt. Jane de Chantal had a most tender devotion to the Blessed Mother. This is how St. Vincent de Paul described it to his Daughters of Charity:

“For a long time, a lady I knew  had the practice in all her meditations of contemplating a picture of the Blessed Virgin. First, she would look at her eyes and then say in her own mind, ‘0 beautiful eyes, how pure you are! You never did anything but glorify God. What purity is apparent in your holy eyes!

How different from mine, by which I’ve so often offended my God!I don’t want to give them so much liberty any longer but, on the contrary,I’ll accustom them to modesty’ …

“Another time, she’d look at her mouth and say, ‘0 holy mouth,how often you opened yourself to give praise to God and to teach  and edify your neighbor! You never did it to commit sin. How different from mine, which has always done the opposite! Holy Virgin,by God’s grace and your charity I am trying to watch more closely over my words and especially to avoid certain speech that gives bad example and saddens my neighbor.’ In this way, point by point, that lady contemplated the Blessed Virgin, and it served her for many years as a subject for mental prayer.”

Footnote: This “lady” was

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal.. The foundation of the First Monastery in Paris drew her to that city where she remained from 1619 to 1622. There she became acquainted with Saint Vincent, whom she requested of the Archbishop of Paris, as Superior of her daughters. Until her death in Moulins on December 13, 1641, as she was returning to Annecy from a trip to Paris,she kept in close contact with M. Vincent, whom she consulted for spiritual direction and the business affairs of berCommunity. (Cr. Henri de Maupas du Tour, La Vie de lo. Venerable Mere Jeanne Frimior,jondatrice, premiere Mere et Religieuse de l’Ordre de la Visitation de Sainte-Marie [new ed., Paris: Simeon Piget, 1653).)

Source:p.27,Saint Vincent de Paul / Correspondence, Conferences, Documents, IX / Conferences to the Daughters of Charity Volume 1