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Mary, the Support of the Church

Introduction

Jean-Claude Colin often spoke of Mary as the support of the Church at the beginning and at the end. This seems to be his way of referring to the inspiration Courveille experienced at Le Puy. Presented here is the dossier of texts gathered by J. Coste, S.M., in Acta Societatis Mariae, vol. 5, pp. 264-271. In several cases a wider context is offered than was needed for Coste’s purposes. These are marked with a (+) in the apparatus. At the end of the dossier is added a text of Fr. Peter Julian Eymard that also speaks of Mary as the support of the Church.

The support of the newborn Church and at the end of time

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October 26, 1844. Colin. Insertd by Mayet after the 1837 text. [Coste text D = Mayet 1, 11 = OM 422, c = FS 4, 3]:

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On October 26, 1844, he repeated those words and said: “It is now about thirty years ago that that was said to a priest.”

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