December 20 - Our Lady of Folgoët (France)

A few days before arriving in Bethlehem

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Joseph made frequent stops at the end of the journey, as the Blessed Virgin grew increasingly tired. Seven leagues from Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph asked a shepherd for hospitality. He ordered that they be taken to a comfortable room, and that their donkey be cared for.

A servant washed Joseph's feet and gave him a change of clothes so that he could wash his, which were all dusty. A woman did the same for the Blessed Virgin. After their meal, they rested. 

The mistress of the house kept to herself without a reason; (...) she had seen with a jealous eye the beauty of the Blessed Virgin. Fearing, moreover, that Mary would ask to remain in her home to give birth, she did not appear, and thus contributed, by her rudeness, to the departure of the Holy Family the very next day.

Thirty years later, Jesus found the same woman in the same house, blind and bent over, whom he healed after exhorting her to be less vain and more hospitable.

Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Life of Jesus Christ and Other Revelations, Volume 1, chapter 7

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