between the two Covenants, so to speak, which was occasioned by the rebellion of the chosen people of the Jews, and the consequent handing over of the treasures of the Faith to the Gentile communities. We have before spoken of this, as a possible cause of what we consider the slowness of growth, or at least of manifestation, in its fulness, of the mighty devotion to our Blessed Lady in the Catholic Church. Perhaps under other circumstances there might have been a far earlier unfolding, in the manifestations