CCC 717

"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John."⁸⁹ Jn 1:6. John was "filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb"⁹⁰ Lk 1:15, 41. by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary's visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people.⁹¹ Cf. Lk 1:68.