CENTRAL EDITORIAL, 23 May. 16 (ACI).-
Since the beginning of Christianity, the Church has found in the Mother of God a model to follow, always highlighting her virtues. Next, 15 phrases of famous saints about the Virgin Mary.
1. Saint Augustine of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the Church
“Mary was blessed, because, before giving birth to her teacher, she carried him in her womb.”
2. Saint Augustine of Hippo
“Mary is also happy because she heard the word of God and fulfilled it; she bore in her womb the body of Christ, but she even more she kept in her mind the truth of Christ”.
3. Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church and patron saint of confessors and moralists
“The Eternal fell in love with your incomparable beauty, with such force, that he acted as if he were to detach himself from the bosom of the Father and choose those virginal entrails to become your Son. And I, a worm of the earth, should I not love you? Yes, sweetest My mother, I want to burn in your love and I propose to exhort others to love you too”.
4. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church and famous for his love for the Virgin Mary
“If the storm of temptation rises, if you fall into the pitfall of sadness, raise your eyes to the Star of the Sea: invoke Mary!”
5. Saint Bernard, composer also of many Marian prayers
“If She has you by the hand you cannot sink. Under her mantle there is nothing to fear.”
6. Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans and devotee of the Virgin
“God save you, Mary, Mother of God. In you is and was all the fullness of grace and all good.”
7. Saint Irenaeus, Father of the Church of the first centuries who fought heresies
“The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience; what the virgin Eve tied by unbelief, the virgin Mary untied by faith.”
8. Saint Luis María Griñón de Montfort, author of several Marian books, among which is the “Treatise on true devotion to the Virgin Mary”.
“I am all yours, O Mary, and everything I have is yours.”
9. Saint Louis-Marie Grinon de Montfort
“Whom God wants to make very holy, he makes him devoted to the Virgin Mary.”
10. Saint John Bosco, great promoter of the devotion to Mary Help of Christians
“Devotion and love to Mary Most Holy is a great protection and a powerful weapon against the snares of the devil.”
11. Saint Teresa of Jesus, mystic and Doctor of the Church
“It is a great thing that pleases Our Lord any service that is done to his Mother”.
12. Saint Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church and Patron of the missions
“With the faithful practice of the most humble and simple virtues, you have made, my Mother, visible to all the straight path to Heaven”.
13. Saint Teresa of the Andes, Latin American Discalced Carmelite
“Mary, you are the Mother of the Universe. Who is not encouraged to see you so tender, so compassionate, to discover his intimate torments? If he is a sinner, your caresses soften him. If he is your faithful devotee, your presence only lights the living flame of divine love.
14. Saint John Paul II, the Pope of the family
“You have given us your Mother as ours so that she can teach us to meditate and adore in the heart. She, receiving the Word and putting it into practice, became the most perfect Mother”.
15. Saint John Paul II, the Pilgrim Pope
“Give us your eyes, Mary, to decipher the mystery that is hidden behind the fragility of the members of the Son. Teach us to recognize his face in children of every race and culture.” Saint John Paul II, the pilgrim Pope.
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