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5–5. Block-book page from The Story of the Blessed Virgin

This page attempts to justify the Immaculate Conception by a series of “logical” parallels: If the light of Venus’s temple cannot be extinguished, if the moon is reflected in water, if a person can be changed into stone, and if man can be painted on stone, why should not the Blessed Virgin be able to generate?

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