CCC 717 “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”¹ John was “filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb”² 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.³

1 Jn 1:6.
2 Lk 1:15, 41.
3 Cf. Lk 1:68.