Edited by Joseph Regina.

From John Henry Cardinal Newman, among the most renowned Catholic thinkers of the nineteenth century, comes this defense of the Catholic Church’s Marian devotion.  Newman sets forth the reasons for the Church's devotion to the Mother of God, as well as a detailed explanation of the attributes of Mary that are acknowledged in the Litany of Loretto.

Inspired by the powerful and widespread recourse to Mary over centuries by the ordinary faithful, Cardinal Newman provides his own stirring testimony to Mary.  His collection of writings on the Blessed Virgin are for both doctrinal study and devotion. 

Newman examines the New Testament and the writings of the Church Fathers to show that this devotion is on a firm apostolic foundation. Then he explains the sound doctrinal bases of the titles given to Our Lady in the Litany of Loreto:  Mystical Rose, House of Gold, Mirror of Justice, Queen of Angels, Tower of Ivory, Singular Vessel of Devotion, Queen of Martyrs, and more.

144 pages. Softcover.


"Eve was a thorn, wounding, bringing death to all; in Mary we see a rose, soothing everybody's hurts, giving the destiny of salvation back to all. Mary was a rose, white for maidenhood, red for love; white in body, red in soul; white in her seeking after virtue, red in treading down vice; white in cleansing her affections, red in mortifying her flesh; white in her love of God, red in compassion for her neighbor"
-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux