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OLOBIES OF MARY. 425
cause why the dignity
an order superior to any other created dignity;
because it appertains, in a certain manner, to the
order of union with a divine person, with which
union it is necessarily connected.* Hence St.
Denis the Carthusian asserts, that after the hypostatic
union, there is none more intimate than
the union of the mother of God with her Son.f
This, as St. Thomas teaches, is the highest union
that a pure creature can have with God.f
And the blessed Albertus Magnus affirms, that
of mother of God is of
to be mother of God is a dignity next to that
of being God; therefore he says, that Mary
could not be more united to God than she was,
without becoming God.|
St. Bernardine affirms, that in order to become
mother of God, it was requisite that the holy
Virgin should be exalted to a certain equality
with the divine Persons, by a certain infinity of
graces.T And as children are esteemed moral
ly one with their parents, so that their posses-
* Dignitas matrls est alteriorisordinis, pertinet enim quodammod*
ad ordinem unionis hypostaticse ;
ilium enim intrinsece respicit, et
cum ilia necessariam conjunctionein babet. To. 2, in. 3, p. d.
2, s. 2.
t Post hypostatlcam conjunctionem non eet alia tarn vicina, ut
unio matris Dei cum filio KUO. L. 2, de Laud. V.
$ Est suprema qusedam conjunctio cum persona infinita. 1, p. q.
25, a. 6.
Immediate post esse Deum, est esse matrem Dei. Super Miss.
C. 180.
I Magis Deo conjungl, nisi fieret Deus, non potuit.
^ Quod fcemina conciperet et pareret Deum oportuit earn elevarf
ad quamdam sequalitatem divinam, per quamdam infinitatem gratia*
iwu. To. 1, Serm. 61, c. 16.