BORN OF the Father, Christ created his mother; formed as a man in his mother, he glorified his Father. He, the son of Mary and the spouse of holy Church, has made the Church like to his mother, since he made it a mother for us, and he kept it a virgin for himself. The Church, like Mary, has inviolate integrity and incorrupt (fruitfulness). What Mary merited physically the Church has guarded spiritually, with the exception that Mary brought forth only one child, while the Church has many children destined to be gather into one body. [St. Augustine]
