Elisabeth of Schönau: The Complete Works

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"[Did Is. 7:14 inspire Mary to take a vow of virginity?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/87386/1787)"[*The Life of Mary as Seen by the Mystics*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6524) ch. 5 "In the Temple":> Once when I [Mary] was thinking that I never wanted to be deprived of God’s grace, I arose and went to read in the Scriptures, desiring something to console my soul. When I opened the book, the first thing I saw was this passage of [Isaias [7:14]](http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drl&bk=27&ch=7&l=14-#x): “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.” As I understood from this that the Son of God was going to choose a virgin to be His Mother, I immediately resolved in my heart, out of reverence for that virgin, to remain a virgin myself and to offer myself to her as a handmaid and always to serve her and never to leave her, even if I had to travel all over the world with her.I can't find this quote in her complete(?) works here. * * *Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302) and indexIntroduction -- The preface of Abbot Ekbert to the visions -- First book of visions -- Second book of visions -- Third book of visions -- The book of the ways of God -- The resurrection of the Blessed Virgin -- The book of revelations about the sacred company of the virgins of Cologne -- Letters -- The death of Elisabeth