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Folio 89v
Devotions to the Virgin Mary, continued.
Prayer, O intemerata ... Da, continued.
... fear no evil, and do such penance for sins in this life as is acceptable to Christ, through the merits and prayers of his mother. He asks that in this way Christ may appear to him in the next life, mercifully granting him eternal life and rest with the elect.
nulla adversa formidare. Et talem penitenciam\ in hac vita pro cunctis sceleribus et peccatis meis\ peragere que ei precibus et meritis tuis bene\ placens sit et grata. Ita ut pareat michi in alia\ vita concedens michi misericorditer cum electis\ suis vitam et requiem sempiternam. Amen.\
Prayer, O Intemerata ... Inclina.
A prayer to the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist (HE, pp 67-68). The author invokes the Virgin as the mother of God, through whom, after God himself, the world lives. He asks her to hear his prayers and help him. He invokes St John, the beloved of Christ, the virgin whom Christ chose and loved more than the other disciples, initiating him into the mysteries of heaven and making him his pre-eminent apostle and evangelist.
O Intemerata et ineternum benedicta\ singularis atque incomparabilis dei\ genitrix virgo semper Maria gra\tissimum dei templum spiritus sancti sacra\rium ianua regni celorum per quam post deum\ totus vivit orbis terrarum. Inclina mater misericordie\ aures tue pietatis indignis supplicacionibus\ meis et esto michi miserrimo peccatori pia et in\ omnibus auxiliatrix. O Iohannes beatissime\ Christi familiaris et amice qui ab eodem domino\ nostro Ihesu Christo virgo es electus et inter ceteros\ magis dilectus atque misteriis celestibus ul\tra omnes imbutus apostolus eius et evvange\lista factus es preclarissimus. Te eciam invoco\ cum Maria matre eiusdem salvatoris nostri ut\
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