the-glories-of-mary

570 GLOEIES OF MARY.
attached to the teeth; the face lengthened, the
nose sharp, the countenance sad; the head had
fallen upon his breast, the hair black with blood,
the stomach collapsed, the arms and legs stiff,
and the whole body covered with wounds and
blood."*
Mary also suffered all these pains of Jesus.
Every torture inflicted on the body of Jesus,
says St. Jerome, was a wound in the heart of
the mother.f Any one of us who should then
have been on Mount Calvary, would have seen
two altars, says St. John Chrysostom, on which
two great sacrifices were consummating, one in the
body of Jesus, the other in the heart of Mary.
But rather would I see there, with St. Bonaventure,
one altar only, namely, the cross alone of
the Son, on which, with the victim, this di
vine Lamb, the mother also was sacrificed.
Therefore the saint interrogates her in these
words: Oh Lady, where art thou? Near the
cross? Nay, on the cross, thou art crucified
with thy Son.J St. Augustine also says the
same thing: The cross and nails of the Son were
also the cross and nails of the mother; Christ
being crucified, the mother was also crucified.
Yes, because, as St. Bernard says, love
inflicted
* L. 1, Rev. c. 10, et 1. 4, c. 70.
t Quot laesiones in corpore Christ!, tot vulnera in corde matrig.
Ap. Bald. to. 1, p. 499.
t O Domina, ubi stas ? Numquid juxta crucera ? Imo in cruc
cum filio cruciaria ? Ap. Bald. torn. 1, p. 452.
Crux et clavi filii fuerunt et matris; Christo cruciflxo cruoiflge.
et mater.