*TEXTS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFFS ON MARIAN CO-REDENTION*
*Pius IX*: "Just as Christ, mediator of God and men, assumed human nature, erasing the writing of the decree that was contrary to us, he nailed him triumphantly on the cross, _so the Blessed Virgin, united to Him with a very tight and indissoluble bond, exercising with Him and for Him her epiternal enmities against the poisonous snake and triumphing from it fully, crushed his head with an immaculate foot. _" (Bula _Ineffabilis Deus_, December 8, 1854)
*Leo XIII*: "The Virgin, free from the original stain, chosen to be Mother of God and _associated by the same, chosen to be Mother of God and _associated by the same to the work of salvation of the human race_, enjoys near her Son a favor and a power so great that neither men nor angels have never been able to obtain it the same." (_Supremi Apostolatus_, September 1, 1883)
The one who had been a cooperator in the sacrament of the _redemption of man_, would also be a co-operator in the …More