August Marian Infographic

1. “Mary has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a reward for her
great humility, God gave her the power and mission of assigning to saints the thrones
made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride.” - St Louis Marie de
Montfort
2. “St. Francis embraced the Mother of Our Lord Jesus with indescribable love because, as
he said, it was She who made the Lord of majesty our brother, and through Her, we found
mercy. After Christ, he put all his trust in Her and took Her as his patroness for himself
and his friars.” – St. Bonaventure
3. “Mary, who is the sovereign Lady of the angels, exalted incomparably above the angelic
hierarchies.” St. Antoninus
4. “The Blessed Virgin Mary , who was equal to and even superior in merit to all men and
angels, was exalted above all the celestial orders.” – St. Thomas
5. “As the light of the moon and stars are entirely eclipsed on the appearance of the sun, that
it is as if it was not, so also does Mary’s glory so far exceed the splendor of all men and
angels, that, so to say, they do not appear in Heaven. “ St. Peter Damian
6. “As the most glorious Mother of Christ, our Saviour and our God and the giver of life and
immortality, has been endowed with life by Him, She has received an eternal
incorruptibility of the body together with Him who has raised Her up from the tomb
and has taken Her up to Himself in a way known only to Him.” – St. Modestus of
Jerusalem
7. “Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners and guide us on the way that leads to heaven.
“ - Pope Francis
8. “Taken up into Heaven, Mary shows us the way to God, the way to Heaven, the way to
life.” St. John Paul II
9. “By looking at Mary’s Assumption into Heaven, we understand better that even though
our daily life may be marked by trials and difficulties, it flows like a river to the divine
ocean, to the fullness of joy and peace.” - Pope Benedict XVI
10. In Her, assumed into heaven, we are shown the eternal destiny that awaits us beyond the
mystery of death: a destiny of total happiness in divine glory.” -St. John Paul II
11. “Mary’s Assumption is an event that concerns us precisely because every human being is
destined to die. “ – St. John Paul II
12. “Death – the mystery of the Virgin’s Assumption assures us – is the passage to life, the
encounter with Love. It is the passage to the eternal happiness in store for those who toil
for truth and justice and do their utmost to follow Christ.” -St. John Paul II
13. “Mary, glorified in Her body, appears today as the star of hope for the Church and for
humanity on its way towards the third Christian millennium. “ -St. John Paul II
14. “In Mary and in the mystery of Her Assumption, every person is called to discover the
bold, connatural end of life, according to the plan established by the Creator: in other
words, to be conformed to Christ, the Incarnate Word, authentic image of the heavenly
 Father, to join Him on the journey of faith and to rise with him to the fullness of blessed
life.” – St. John Paul II
15. “Today the Church celebrates Mary’s glorious Assumption body and soul into Heaven.
The two dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption are closely related.
Both proclaim the glory of Christ the Redeemer and the holiness of Mary, whose human
destiny is even now perfectly and definitively realized in God.” -St. John Paul II
16. On 1 November 1950, Venerable Pope Pius XII proclaimed as Dogma that the Virgin
Mary “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into
heavenly glory”. 
17. “Not only is the Virgin Mary's bodily Assumption connected time and time again with
the dignity of the Mother of God, but also with the other privileges, and in particular with
the virginal motherhood granted Her by a singular decree of God's Providence.” –
Byzantine Liturgy
18. “Mary seems even closer to us: from heaven She sees us and protects us.” – St. John Paul
II
19. “The Assumption reminds us that Mary’s life, like that of every Christian, is a journey of
following - following Jesus - a journey that has a very precise destination, a future
already marked out: the definitive victory over sin and death and full communion with
God. “ Pope Benedict XVI
20. “For the Blessed Virgin Mary, death could never be anything more than sleep and the
assumption anything more than an act of waking up.” – St. Germanus
21. “How glorious was the triumph of Mary when She assumed to Heaven. How exalted was
the throne to which She was elevated in Heaven.” – St. Alphonsus de Liguori
22. “Let Mary Thy most Holy Mother, sanctified by His conception, also ascend. “ -St.
Bernadine
23. “When the glorious Virgin Mother ascended to Heaven, She augmented the joy of all its
inhabitants.” – St. Bernadine
24. “The greatest glory of the blessed in Heaven is, after seeing God, the presence of this
most beautiful Queen.” – St. Peter Damian
25. “If Mary’s compassion for the miserable was great when She lived upon earth, it is far
greater now that She reigns in Heaven.” – St. Bonaventure
26. “The Solemnity of Mary’s Assumption into heaven reminds us that Mary has returned to
the Father’s house in body and soul, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of peace towards
which we are all journeying.” – St. John Paul II
27. “ The body of Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, was incorrupt and had been taken up into
heaven to be in keeping, not only with Her divine motherhood, but also with the special
holiness of Her virginal body.” - St. Germanus of Constantinople
28. “ The Virgin Mary's flesh had remained incorrupt-for it is wrong to believe that Her body
has seen corruption-because it was really united again to Her soul and, together with it,
crowned with great glory in the heavenly courts” – MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS P. 28
29. "It was fitting that She, who had kept Her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep Her
own body free from all corruption even after death. “ – St. John Damascene
30. “Jesus did not wish to have the body of Mary corrupted after death, since it would have
redounded to His own dishonor to have Her virginal flesh, from which He Himself had
assumed flesh, reduced to dust." – St. Alphonsus Ligouri
31. "This teaching has already been accepted for some centuries, it has been held as certain in
the minds of the pious people, and it has been taught to the entire Church in such a way
that those who deny that Mary's body has been assumed into heaven are not to be listened
to patiently but are everywhere to be denounced as over-contentious or rash men, and as
imbued with a spirit that is heretical rather than Catholic." – St. Peter Canisius