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Revelation 21:2 (WEB)
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Catechism · 6

§1045Article 12 · "I Believe in Life Everlasting"Read at vatican.va
“Those who are united with Christ will form the community of the redeemed, "the holy city" of God, "the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 21:2, 9.

§117Article 3 · Sacred ScriptureRead at vatican.va
The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.

§2016Article 2 · Grace and JustificationRead at vatican.va
“Keeping the same rule of life, believers share the "blessed hope" of those whom the divine mercy gathers into the "holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 21:2.

§677Article 7 · "From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"Read at vatican.va
“The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Rev 13:8; 20:7-10; 21:2-4.

§756Paragraph 1 · The Church in God's PlanRead at vatican.va
“It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 3:9; Mt 21:42 and parallels; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7; PS 118:22; 1 Cor 3:11; 1 Tim 3:15; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:3; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21:1-2.
§757Paragraph 1 · The Church in God's PlanRead at vatican.va
“It is she whom Christ 'loved and for whom he delivered himself up that he might sanctify her.' It is she whom he unites to himself by an unbreakable alliance, and whom he constantly 'nourishes and cherishes.'"” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. Gal 4:26; Rev 12:17; 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17; Eph 5:25-26, 29.

Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.35Book V
“And in the Apocalypse John saw this new [Jerusalem] descending upon the new earth.” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 2.
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Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History X.4Book X
“…the distinguished honor of building and renewing this earthly house to Christ, his only begotten and first-born Word, and to his holy and divine bride;—” — editor's note: Cf. Rev. xxi. 2
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VII.21Book VII
“Those pages contain not the expression of this piety,—the tears of confession, Thy sacrifice, a troubled spirit, “a broken and a contrite heart,” the salvation of the people, the espoused city, the earnest of the Holy Ghost, the cup of our redemption.” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XX.17Book XX
“And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 2–5.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 3
“He beholds, it is true, no embattled towns, but he has enrolled his name in the new city.” — editor's note: I.e. the new Jerusalem. Rev. xxi. 2; Is. iv. 3.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.23Book III
“…state of existence; inasmuch as it will be after the resurrection for a thousand years in the divinely-built city of Jerusalem, “let down from heaven,” which the apostle also calls “our mother from above;” and, while declaring that our πολίτευμα , or citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is…” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 2.
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