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By Mary Biese, Notre Dame
The Blessed Virgin Mary becomes more prominent in Dante’s Divine Comedy as the epic hero travels closer to the Beatific Vision. After only a few mentions in the Inferno, Mary appears in almost every chapter of Purgatorio as the exemplar of virtue; in Paradiso, we finally meet the Queen of Heaven in all her splendor. The epic’s last four cantos (XXX-XXXIII) are heavily inundated with Marian imagery and theology. Strongly associated with roses and flowers, the Queen of Heaven most closely reflects God’s Light and beauty: St. Bernard tells Dante that hers is “the face that is most…
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