Flower of Devotion

The Most Holy Virgin said to St. Bridget:

“You cannot see my Son as he is in heaven, but what he was like in the flesh you will know.” His face was so beautiful that everyone who looked into His Face was comforted with joy, even though his heart was sorrowful. At the same time, the righteous received spiritual consolation. Even the wicked during the time they looked at Him forgot the sorrows of the world, and consequently they were afflicted with sorrow and used to say, “Let us go and look at the Son of Love, that we may be comforted, at least for the time being!”
In the twentieth year of his age he had developed and educated himself in flesh and stature, in manly greatness and strength. Among people of average size and today he would be tall. He didn’t have much flesh on him, but he was muscular and had strong bones.
His hair, His eyebrows, and His beard were somewhat brown; The length of the beard was the width of an arm. His forehead was neither convex nor concave, but rose in a perpendicular direction. His nose was shapely, neither small nor too big. His eyes were so pure that they even brought joy to His enemies when they looked into them. His lips were not thick and had a bright red, and his beard did not protrude forward, nor was it too long, but shapely and of beautiful size. His cheeks showed a mediocre fullness of flesh and were of a bright white color, in which a fresh blush showed through. His posture was straight, and there was not a spot all over His body, as attested by those who saw Him naked, tied to a pole while He was being scourged.