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In the verses of the prayerLobrede to Mary (Par. 33)

Qui sei per noi meridiana face

di caritade; e giuso, intra i mortali

sei di speranza fontana vivace

DanteDante uses the images meridiana face and fontana for the contrast ‘here in heaven’ and ’down on earth’. It is Bernard of Clairvaux whom DanteDante makes speak thus, and the same images are to be found, in the same contrast, in Bernard’s above-quoted sermon de aquaeductu (In Nativ. B. Mariae Virg. Sermo, § 2–4, Patr. Lat., CLXXXIII, 439–440); however they there refer not to Mary, but to Christ.

In Bernard’s sermon Christ is fons indeficiens, fons hortorum, fons vitae, but Mary is the aqueduct which leads the water to us:

… Descendit per aquaeductum vena illa coelestis, non tamen fontis exhibens copiam, sed stillicidia gratiae arentibus cordibus nostris infundens, aliis quidem plus, aliis minus. Plenus equidem aquaeductus, ut accipiant caeteri de plenitudine, sed non plenitudinem ipsam. Advertistis iam, ni fallor, quem velim dicere aquaeductum, qui plenitudinem fontis ipsius de corde Patris excipiens, nobis edidit ilium, si non prout est, saltem prout capere poteramus. Nostis enim cui dictum est: Ave gratia plena. …