Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the ...

Preces Gertrudianae : Prayers of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of the Order of St. Benedict by Gertrude the Great, Saint, 1256-1302; Mechthild of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282; ...