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PREFACE

TO THE

READER.

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What you have long desired, kind Reader, this little work contains. It presents to the public the ancient and new Marian garden viridarium Marianum Marian Garden, which reveals those great works magnalia great deeds/wonders that GOD has performed in His Saints and Blessed ones. Only a few have been selected from the many, which will animate the good toward virtues and deter the wicked from vices. And if it is true that words move, but examples draw us, what remains here but that we commit ourselves to the paths of virtue?