“Whoever then was present on the Mount of Calvary”,
says Saint John Chrysostom, “might see two Altars, on
which two great Sacrifices were consummated; the one
in the body of Jesus, the other in the heart of Mary”.
(Saint Alphonsus Liguori: “The Glories of Mary”).
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TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS
This past week [Editor: This Article is dated 7 November 2025] the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a new Doctrinal Note called “Mater Populi Fidelis”, which denied Our Blessed Mother her titles of “Co-Redemptrix“ and “Mediatrix Of All Graces”.
The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer do not accept this new teaching.
This past week [Editor: This Article is dated 7 November 2025] the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a new Doctrinal Note called “Mater Populi Fidelis”, which denied Our Blessed Mother her titles of “Co-Redemptrix“ and “Mediatrix Of All Graces”.
The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer do not accept this new teaching.
English: The Crowning of The Virgin Mary
in Heaven by The Holy Trinity.
Español: Coronación de la Virgen.
Deutsch: Die Krönung Marias.
Artist: Diego Velázquez (1599–1660).
Date: Circa 1645.
Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Source/Photographer: https://www.museodelprado.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following is a non-exhaustive list of Saints, Popes, and Theologians, who taught, at least implicitly, the Doctrine of Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix.
The title itself is more modern, as “Mater Populi Fidelis” points out: “The title “Co-Redemptrix” first appeared in the 15th-Century as a correction to the invocation “Redemptrix” . . . which had been attributed to Mary since the 10th-Century.”
However, the principles on which this title is based are not modern, especially that Our Lady is the New Eve:
The title itself is more modern, as “Mater Populi Fidelis” points out: “The title “Co-Redemptrix” first appeared in the 15th-Century as a correction to the invocation “Redemptrix” . . . which had been attributed to Mary since the 10th-Century.”
However, the principles on which this title is based are not modern, especially that Our Lady is the New Eve:
St. Justin
St. Irenaeus
Tertullian
St. Cyprian
Origen
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
St. Ephrem
St. Epiphanius
St. Basil
St. Ambrose
St. Jerome
St. John Chrysostom
St. Augustine
St. Proclus
St. John Damascene
St. Germanus of Constantinople
St. Anselm
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Albert the Great, O.P.
Hugh of Saint-Cher, O.P.
St. Bonaventure, O.F.M.
Richard of Saint-Laurence
St. Alphonsus Liguori, C.SS.R.
Francisco Suárez, S.J.
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, O.F.M. Cap.
St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J.
Ferdinand Chirinos de Salazar, S.J.
Angelo Vulpes, O.F.M. Conv.
Placido Mirto Frangipane, C.R.
George de Rhodes, S.J.
St. John Eudes, C.J.M.
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, S.M.M.
Fr Frederick William Faber, C.O.
St. Pius X
Bl. Pius IX
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Benedict XV
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XII
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, O.F.M. Cap.
Benoît-Henri Merkelbach, O.P.
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