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Here was Mary, certainly the most privileged of all the saints, certainly the most saintly, ...

Most privileged, I'll buy. Most saintly? It sounds like her son said it was John the Baptist:

"I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” (Luke 7:28)

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So Mary, who was in the kingdom was greater.

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