"For the Lord came to seek back the lost sheep, and it was man who was lost; and therefore He did not become some other formation, but He likewise, of her that was descended from Adam, preserved the likeness of formation; for Adam had necessarily to be restored in Christ, that mortality be absorbed in immortality, and even in Mary, that a virgin, become the advocate of a virgin, should undo and destroy virginal disobedience by virginal obedience."

(Bishop Saint Irenaeus [b. Proconsular Asia 130 A.D. - d. Lyons, France 202 A.D.], Bishop of Lyons and a Father of the Catholic Church who was a Disciple of Bishop Saint Polycarp, "PROOF OF THE APOSTOLIC PREACHING", 33).

Mary

"Our chosen one shall be called MARY, and this name shall be powerful and magnificent. Those that shall invoke it with devout affection shall receive most abundant graces, those that shall honor it and pronounce it with reverence shall be consoled and vivified, and will find in it the remedy of their evils, the treasures for their enrichment, the light which shall guide them to Heaven. It shall be terrible against the power of hell, it shall crush the head of the serpent and it shall win glorious victories over the princes of Hell."

(Venerable Mary of Agreda, "MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD", Book I, The Conception, p. 269).