“Although she is not called virgin Saint Madeleine, however, because of the super-eminent purity she had after her conversion, she must be called archvirgin, because having been purified in the furnace of sacred love, she was filled with excellent chastity, and endowed with such perfect dilection, that after the Mother of God it was she who most loved Our Lord.
Our Lord restores Saint Magdalene to virginity, not essential but repaired, which is sometimes more excellent than not that which, having received no tar,
is accompanied by less humility.”
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From Treatise on the Love of God, Book 6 Chapter 7
All Magdalen’s affections, and all her thoughts, were scattered about the sepulchre of her Saviour, whom she went seeking hither and thither, and though she had found him, and he spoke to her, yet leaves she them dispersed, because she does not perceive his presence; but as soon as he had called her by her name, see how she gathers herself together and entirely attaches herself to his feet: one only word puts her into recollection.
Saint Francis de Sales
(1567-1622)
Bishop of Geneva & Doctor of the Church
Founder of the Order of the Visitation