Do you not think that what particularly incited our glorious Mistress [the Blessed Virgin Mary] to make this visitation was her very ardent charity and a very deep humility which made her cross the mountains of Judea with such speed and promptness? O certainly, it was these two virtues that impelled her and made her leave her little Nazareth, for charity is not idle: it boils in the hearts where she reigns and dwells, and the Blessed Virgin was completely filled with it, ‘as much as she had love even in her womb.
Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622) Doctor of the Church Bishop of Geneva and Founder of the Order of the Visitation
