"From the womb of the Virgin Mary flowed two fountains"

St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi (1566-1589) made her profession as a Carmelite nun in the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, Italy. It was at this time that the first series of intense mystical experiences began, her "Forty Days", which lasted until July 5,1584. During these ecstasies of two to three hours each, she could speak, she heard locutions, received the stigmata, had various visions, participated morally and physically in the Passion of Christ, and received revelations about the suffering of Christ.

Her (imaginary) visions of the Virgin are varied and rich on both a theological and symbolic level:

"I believe that I saw the Blessed Virgin in Paradise at the right hand of Jesus; she seemed to say to me with a smile: 'You do not take into account the gift you received the day you took the veil.' This gift was the purity of the Virgin that Jesus had given me. I saw the Virgin so beautiful that I cannot express it to you… I saw that from the womb of the Virgin Mary flowed two fountains, one of milk, the other of blood. The one of milk was poured out on all the blessed souls in Paradise ... That of blood was poured out on all the creatures.

I also heard the Virgin say this verse: ‘Happy words flow from my Heart, when I recite poems for the King’ (Ps 45,2); the word coming from her is Jesus, to whom she gave birth, for us. And the Virgin was addressing these words to the King, that is to say, to the eternal Father: I saw that it was an immense fountain, from which many jets of water gushed out, spreading water all over the world, and sending out streams of grace."

From The Forty Days, #64-65 and 139. And Dictionnaire des apparitions by Father Laurentin - Fayard 2007