What Does the Visitation Have to Do With Mary’s Assumption?

August 16, 2021 by Web Master

Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni, “The Visitation,” 1416. Oratio of St. John the Baptist, Urbino, Italy.

SCRIPTURES & ART: Elizabeth confesses Mary’s uniqueness: she is “the Mother of my God.” It is not fitting that the body which bore the Body of Christ should suffer corruption.