Pope Leo XIII Encyclical on the Rosary
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:25 am
(Octobri Mense) of 1891
"From that great treasure of all graces, which the Lord has bought, nothing, according to the Will of God, comes to us except through Mary, so that, as nobody can approach the Supreme Father except through the Son, similarly nobody can approach Christ except through His Mother."
Pope Pius X calls Mary "the Dispenser of all gifts, which Jesus has acquired for buy phone number list us through His death and His Blood" (D 1978 A).
Pope Benedict XV declared "All gifts which the Author of all good (God) has deigned to communicate to the unhappy posterity of Adam, are, according to the loving resolve of His Divine Providence, dispensed by the hands of the Most Holy Virgin" (AAS 9, 1917, 266).
Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical "Ingravescentibus Malis" in 1937 quotes with approval St. Bernard: "Thus it is His (God's) Will that we should have everything through Mary" (AAS 29, 1937, 373). Similarly, Pope Pius XII said the same in his Encyclical "Mediator Dei" of 1947.
Explicit testimonies to Mary's position as Mediatrix of Grace are found since the eighth century. The became more numerous during the peak period of the middle ages. St. Germanus of Constantinople († 733) says "Nobody can achieve salvation except through thee ... O Most Holy One ... Nobody can receive a gift of Grace except through thee ... O Most Chaste One" (Or. 9, 5. Lesson of the Office of the Feast). St. Bernard of Clairvaux († 1153) says of Mary: "God wished that we had nothing, except by the hands of Mary." (In Vig. Nativit. Domini serm. 3, 10). Albert the Great calls Mary: "The universal dispenser of all riches" (omnium bonitatum universaliter distributiva; Super Missus est q. 29). Other saintly advocates include St. Peter Canisius (Doctor of the Church) and St. Alphonsus Ligouri.
"From that great treasure of all graces, which the Lord has bought, nothing, according to the Will of God, comes to us except through Mary, so that, as nobody can approach the Supreme Father except through the Son, similarly nobody can approach Christ except through His Mother."
Pope Pius X calls Mary "the Dispenser of all gifts, which Jesus has acquired for buy phone number list us through His death and His Blood" (D 1978 A).
Pope Benedict XV declared "All gifts which the Author of all good (God) has deigned to communicate to the unhappy posterity of Adam, are, according to the loving resolve of His Divine Providence, dispensed by the hands of the Most Holy Virgin" (AAS 9, 1917, 266).
Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical "Ingravescentibus Malis" in 1937 quotes with approval St. Bernard: "Thus it is His (God's) Will that we should have everything through Mary" (AAS 29, 1937, 373). Similarly, Pope Pius XII said the same in his Encyclical "Mediator Dei" of 1947.
Explicit testimonies to Mary's position as Mediatrix of Grace are found since the eighth century. The became more numerous during the peak period of the middle ages. St. Germanus of Constantinople († 733) says "Nobody can achieve salvation except through thee ... O Most Holy One ... Nobody can receive a gift of Grace except through thee ... O Most Chaste One" (Or. 9, 5. Lesson of the Office of the Feast). St. Bernard of Clairvaux († 1153) says of Mary: "God wished that we had nothing, except by the hands of Mary." (In Vig. Nativit. Domini serm. 3, 10). Albert the Great calls Mary: "The universal dispenser of all riches" (omnium bonitatum universaliter distributiva; Super Missus est q. 29). Other saintly advocates include St. Peter Canisius (Doctor of the Church) and St. Alphonsus Ligouri.