Catherine asserted that she saw the eternal Father producing from his mouth, his co-eternal Son, such as he was, when he clothed himself with human nature; and while she was contemplating him, she saw the blessed patriarch St. Dominic come forth from the breast of the Father all glittering with brightness, and she heard a voice which said: "Beloved daughter, I have begotten these two Sons: one by nature, the other by a sweet and tender adoption." As Catherine was amazed at a comparison so elevated, which rendered 'equal', so to speak, a saint with Jesus Christ, he who uttered these surprising words explained them himself: "My Son, engendered by nature from all eternity, when he assumed human nature, obeyed me in all things perfectly, until his death. Dominic, my son by adoption, from his birth until the last moment of his life, followed my will in all things. He never transgressed one of my commandments, never violated the virginity of either soul or body, and always preserved the grac...