To know Jesus better, we must entrust ourselves to Mary

Saint Pius X (pope from 1903-1914, canonized on May 29, 1954) wrote 16 encyclicals. One of them, entitled Ad Diem Illum (1904), is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary (jubilee) of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, proclaimed by Pope Pius IX.

In it, Pius X asserts the importance of entrusting oneself to the Virgin Mary in order to know Jesus better:

Through the Virgin, and through her more than through any other means, we have been offered a way of reaching the knowledge of Jesus Christ (...) with her alone Jesus was for thirty years united, as a son is usually united with a mother, in the closest ties of intimacy and domestic life. Who could better than His Mother have an open knowledge of the admirable mysteries of the birth and childhood of Christ, and above all of the mystery of the Incarnation, which is the beginning and the foundation of faith?

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