Maro, Prophet of the Gentiles
Maro, Prophet of the Gentiles in the Middle Ages, the name under which the Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was commemorated at the Christmas Mass at Rouen and elsewhere; the allusion is to the passage in his Eclogues which was taken as an unconscious but divinely inspired prophecy of Christ.
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