Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life

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Written by a pre-eminent authority, with brevity, economy and absence of novelty, speculation or merely "metaphorical expressions." Suffused with the spirit of faith and love begotten by sanctity. Not the author's personal opinions, but what the Church actually teaches. Says Mary is greater in grace than all Angels and Saints combined; is the mother of all men and of each individually. A great comprehensive, concise statement of all the Church teaches about Mary!! Impr. 290 pgs,* * *last § (ref:21.1): "[The Predestination of St. Joseph and His Eminent Sanctity](http://salve-regina.com/index.php?title=La_Pr%C3%A9%C3%A9minence_de_saint_Joseph_sur_tout_autre_saint)"His sanctity is intimately bound up with marital graces from Our Lady:> The doctrine of St. Joseph’s pre-eminence received the approval of Leo XIII in his encyclical [*Quamquam pluries*](http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15081889_quamquam-pluries.html), August 15th, 1899, ~~written to proclaim St. Joseph patron of the universal Church~~.> "The dignity of the Mother of God is so elevated that there can be no higher created one. But since St. Joseph was united to the Blessed Virgin by the **conjugal bond** ( *maritale vinculum* ), there is no doubt that he approached nearer than any other to that super-eminent dignity of hers by which the Mother of God surpasses all created natures. **Conjugal union is the greatest of all** ( *coniugium societas necessitudoque omnium maxima* ); by its very nature it is accompanied by a reciprocal communication of the goods of the spouses. If then God gave St. Joseph to Mary to be her spouse He certainly did not give him merely as a companion in life, a witness of her virginity, a guardian of her honor, but **He made him also participate by the conjugal bond** ( *coniugali fœdere* ) **in the eminent dignity which was hers**."Thus, St. Joseph's eminent sanctity is due to the graces of the sacrament of matrimony!