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Symbols: Whale And Jonah began to enter into the city after one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed. And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. As Jonah remained in the whale three days, so Christ remained three days in the earth after His death. Recommended Readings: Jonah 1:11-15 |
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Symbols: Scale of Justice, Temple, Crown Judith of the Old Testament, who killed with a sword the leader of the Assyrian army, saved the Israelite nation. She prefigures Mary the Mother of Jesus, whose "Fiat" brought salvation to all mankind. Recommended Readings: Judith 13:1-28 |