44. THE QUESTION WAS:

According to Augustine, who besides Jesus did not sin?

      a. Nobody but babies

      b. Nobody but Adam and Eve before they ate fruit from the forbidden tree

     c. Mary

 

THE ANSWER IS….C…. Mary

"Now with the exception of the holy Virgin Mary in regard to whom, out of respect for the Lord, I do not propose to have a single question raised on the subject of sin -- after all, how do we know what greater degree of grace for a complete victory over sin was conferred on her who merited to conceive and bring forth Him who all admit was without sin -- to repeat then: with the exception of this Virgin, if we could bring together into one place all those holy men and women, while they lived here, and ask them whether they were without sin, what are we to suppose that they would have replied?" (St. Augustine, De natura et gratia PL 44:267, from Juniper Carol Mariology, vol. 1, p. 15)

 

 

 

 

 

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