With the certainty of faith we know that Jesus Christ is king, true God and man. Mary was the Mother of Christ, and Christ is God and she shared in the work of the divine Redeemer, in His struggles against enemies and in the triumph He won over them all.

From this union with Christ the King she assuredly obtains so eminent a status that she stands high above all created things, and upon this same union with Christ is based that royal privilege enabling her to distribute the treasures of the kingdom of the divine Redeemer.

This union with Christ is the fountain of the inexhaustible efficacy of her motherly intercession in the presence of the Son and of the Father.

Our holy Virgin possess a dignity that far transcends all other creatures. In the eyes of her Son she takes precedence over everyone else.

Pope Pius IX: "More than all the angels and all the saints has God ineffable freely endowed Mary with the fullness of the heavenly gifts that abound in the divine treasury; and she, preserving herself ever immaculately clean from the slightest taint of sin, attained a fullness of innocence and holiness so great as to be unthinkable apart from God Himself, a fullness that no one other than God will ever possess.”