"Effection" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... showed His predilection for virginity, not only by always remaining a virgin, but by selecting a Virgin-Mother and a virgin-precursor in the person of St. John the Baptist, and by exhibiting a special effection for John the Evangelist, because, as St. Augustine testifies, that Apostle was chosen a virgin and such he ...
— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons |
