"To Christ alone has she [the Church] attributed the honor that He by a certain absolute and excellent power should tread the serpent underfoot and, at the same time, endow others, and above all His Mother Mary, with similar power. Nor do we thus make the Mother the equal of the Son, but rather proclaim His greater glory, in that not only personally, but through His Mother and many others, He acts against the old serpent so powerfully that they, though by nature weak, triumph over so great a foe and reduce all his strength and cunning to nothingness."
--St. Peter Canisius (1521-97).
*The 33 Doctors of the Church (2000; Fr. Christopher Rengers, O.F.M. Cap.
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