English: Identifier: legendsofourlady00budgrich

Title: Legends of Our Lady Mary the perpetual virgin and her mother Hannâ Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Ethiopic literature Publisher: London, Boston, Mass. [etc.] The Medici society, ltd. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: also in the signs andwonders that He wrought for her when she was goingforth from this world, shall not see corruption. Behold,the Disciples were witnesses that in the Book of theHistory of Mary were written down all the miraclesthat Christ wrought for her. And the Disciples tookthat Book, and James gave it to John, the son of Zebe-dee, for Christ our God loved him more than the otherdisciples. And when that book was read in Ephesus be-fore the people, a dew with the most beautiful perfumecame down from heaven, and it filled the whole countryof Ephesus. Now there was no other man who couldrelate everything that God did before Mary when shedeparted from this world. No ear could [bear] thehearing thereof, and no eye the sight (Fol. 53a, col. i)thereof, by reason of the multitude of the hosts ofheavenly and earthly beings who accompanied Maryinto the Garden (i.e. Paradise). IX. And then those envoys took that Book of theHistory of Mary, and they departed from Ephesus, and 150 PLATE XXVI

Text Appearing After Image: Lady .Ifeux MS. Xo. 2, fol. 296. The Virgin restoring the sight of John of Bakansi by anointinghis eyes with milk from her breast Discovery of Manuscripts returned to Mount Sinai, and all the people welcomedthose envoys with joy and gladness, and they gavethanks unto God and praised Him because He had re-vealed to them the History of the Virgin. And thenthey translated that book and sent the translation tothe House of the Sanctuary (Jerusalem). Behold now,from this time forward let us pray and make supplica-tion unto God because, in the abundance of His com-passion, and mercy, and love. He sent His beloved Sonto deliver the world from slavery. And let us supplicateHim, through the prayer of our Lady Mary, theMother of God, with incense and with the Offering forthose who shall come and shall make the Offering withgladness on (Fol. 53a, col. 2) the commemoration of theblessed woman. Let us beseech Him, and let us say,* O our Lord Jesus Christ, remove Thou sorrow fromus and from Thy peop

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