I saw, too, that the soldiers who had been given new clothes two days ago were sent to Bethlehem and to various places round Jerusalem. I saw him taking counsel with several old scribes, who read from very long parchment scrolls, fastened on rods, which they had brought with them. I still see Herod exceedingly uneasy, just as he was when the three kings asked him about the newborn King of the Jews. HEROD'S PREPARATIONS FOR THE MURDER OF THE CHILDREN. Herod was in a very uneasy frame of mind.ģ. All this must have been connected with the Massacre of the Innocents. They wore helmets, and many of them had wrappings tied round their legs. They carried spears and short broad swords like chopping knives. They wore something like a half-moon on one arm. These were led into a large courtyard and given clothes and weapons. I had a view of Jerusalem, and saw Herod having numbers of men summoned, as when soldiers are called up with us. The Blessed Virgin's mother comes regularly every day to visit her it is nearly an hour's walk from her house. I felt sorry for him he had no idea that he would soon have to flee into Egypt. He wove various patterns into them - stars, hearts, and other things. He had a store of these panels lying on top of each other in a shed near the house. Joseph plaiting long strips of yellow, brown, and green bark to make panels for screens or for walls and ceilings. She did this work standing or sitting beside the Infant Jesus lying in a basket. The part already knitted hangs down between the two needles. The needle is prolonged beyond the hook, and it is round this prolongation that the thread is looped to make the stitch in working. She had a roll of wool fastened at her right hip and she held in her hands two needles (of bone, I think) with little hooks. I saw the Blessed Virgin doing knitting or crochet work.
THE AGE OF THE CHILD JESUS DURING THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT.Ģ.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Anne Catherine Emmerich ġ.
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