As I read Daniel, a great light dawned on me; it came from the depths of my heart, and my intelligence grasped the meaning of these secret words. The seventy weeks will be shortened thanks to the prayers of the righteous. Will the number of years be changed? No, prophecy does not lie. But the measure of prophetic time is not based on the course of the sun, but on that of the moon. That's why I say: "The hour is near when the son of a virgin will be heard to wander. "See Daniel 9:23-27.
Ah, if only this Light that loves me would tell me - since it tells me so many things - where is the happy virgin who will bear a son to God and the Messiah to his people! These sentiments are attested to in the revelations made to Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231). Dom Prosper Guéranger (1805-1875), Abbot of Solesmes, mentions it in his Année liturgique, on December 9: "Aged only three, she (the Virgin Mary) was already initiated into the secrets of divine love. I always got up in the middle of the night," she herself said in a revelation to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, "and went before the Altar of the Temple, where I asked God to observe all the precepts of his Law, and I begged him to grant me the graces I needed to be pleasing to him. Above all, I asked him to show me the time when this most holy Virgin, who was to give birth to the Son of God, would live. I begged him to preserve my eyes to see her, my tongue to praise her, my hands to serve her, my feet to walk at her bidding, my knees to adore the Son of God in her arms".
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus alludes to this in her letters: "Once, in your humility, you wished one day to be the little handmaid of the happy Virgin who would have the honor of being the Mother of God" (Letter to Céline, October 19, 1892, on her feast day(LT 137).
Book of Daniel 9, 23-27
Dn 9, 23-27 : From the beginning of your prayer, a word came forth, and I have come to make it known to you, for you are a man favored by God. So pay attention to the word and understand the vision. Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city to shut up prevarication, to seal up sins and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in eternal righteousness, to seal up vision and prophet and to anoint the Holy of Holies. Know therefore and understand: from the going forth of a word commanding Jerusalem to be rebuilt until an anointed one, a leader, there are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; she will be rebuilt, places and pregnant, in the distress of times. And after sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off, and no one for him. And the people of a ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary, and its end will be in the flood, and to the end there will be war, which is decreed touching the devastation. He will make a firm covenant with a great number for a week; and in the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and on the wing of abominations will come a destroyer, and that until the destruction and what has been decreed is poured out on the devastated.