• The Virgin Mary, Regina Coeli. ↩
• The chariot of the sun. ↩
• St. Bernard, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. ↩
• Eve. St. Augustine, Serm. 18 “ De Sanctis ,” says: “ Ilia percussit, ista sanavit. ” ↩
• Rachel is an emblem of Divine Contemplation. Inferno II 101, Beatrice says:⁠— “And came unto the place Where I was sitting with the ancient Rachel.” ↩
• Ruth the Moabitess, ancestress of King David. ↩
• “Have mercy upon me,” are the first words of Psalm 51, “a Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him.” ↩
• The saints of the Old Testament. ↩
• The saints of the New Testament. ↩
• John the Baptist, seated at the point of the mystic Rose, opposite to the Virgin Mary. He died two years before Christ’s resurrection, and during these two years was in the Limbo of the Fathers. ↩