Besides the parents of the Baptist, there was one other person intimately concerned in the mystery of the Incarnation, the spouse of Mary. The method of its manifestation was extraordinary, it showed how various are the ways of Divine Providence, and how they serve to elicit different forms of human virtue. The knowledge of the facts and the explanation of the mystery were for a while withheld from St. Joseph. This constituted a trial of the most painful kind, one of the most terrible that could befall a just man.
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Meditations on Christian Dogma, Volume 1
The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1961
