They were girls of fourteen, always clad in the Virgin's colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin at their baptism.
'Go to the Herr Givenaught, go to the Herr Heartless, ask them to come and bid.' There, did I not tell you she would save us, the thrice
blessed Virgin!"
The patriarch, impatient to be gone, took leave in the most tender manner of the governor and his other friends, recommended our voyage to the
Blessed Virgin, and in the field, before we went on shipboard, made a short exhortation, so moving and pathetic, that it touched the hearts of all who heard it.
And without surprise, in that blue sky, real with a reality that not the eye but the soul confesses, with its rack of light clouds driven by strange breezes, like the cries and the sighs of lost souls, you saw the
Blessed Virgin with a gown of red and a cloak of blue, surrounded by winged angels.
Kasatsky entered the monastery on the feast of the Intercession of the
Blessed Virgin. The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey.
"
Blessed Virgin!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "and is it possible that my lady the duchess has drains of that sort?
Yet it was witnessed in the floods of aftertime, that at the coming on of eventide, Ogg the son of Beorl was always seen with his boat upon the wide-spreading waters, and the
Blessed Virgin sat in the prow, shedding a light around as of the moon in its brightness, so that the rowers in the gathering darkness took heart and pulled anew."
It is said he banished his only son from his family for lifting his eyes in the way of affection towards this beauty, who may be worshipped, it seems, at a distance, but is not to be approached with other thoughts than such as we bring to the shrine of the
Blessed Virgin.''
"By Saint Peter and the
Blessed Virgin, I do indeed!
Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the
Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,--or from one of our elder poets,--in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.
So deeply did it move me that, without a thought of the impropriety of the act, I unconsciously bared my head, as a devout Catholic or well-bred Protestant uncovers before an image of the
Blessed Virgin. The maiden showed no displeasure; she merely turned her glorious dark eyes upon me with a look that made me catch my breath, and without other recognition of my act passed into the house.
God and the
Blessed Virgin and the Saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty.
Blessed Virgin - the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics