Woman is the sum and complex of all nature, and is the visible glory of God.[…] The "Word made Flesh" [John 1:14] is the word made Woman.

Cf. Patmore's reference in Homo XXII (p. 125) to "the Blessed Virgin, who is the Body of God". By the doctrines of the Incarnation and the virgin birth, Jesus was wholly formed from the body of Mary, which is therefore, at least in that sense, the body of God.